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The use of mupirocin before skin surgery
D B Czarnecki1, C G Nash, T G Bohl
1Dermatology Unit, Repatriation General Hospital, Heidelberg, Australia.
International Journal of Dermatology
|March 1, 1991
Abstract:
Presumed skin cancers were excised from 46 consecutive outpatients without antibiotic cover. A purulent wound developed in ten patients. Similar, but contaminated lesions were excised from 40 patients, but mupirocin ointment was used before surgery. Not one purulent wound developed out of 45 excisions.