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[Postoperative wound infections in surgery of stomach cancer. A bacteriologic analysis]
V W Widow1, W Röthig, R Wilhelm
1Institut für Medizinische Mikrobiologie, Bereichs Medizin Charité der Humboldt-Universität und des Bereichs Chirurgie, Akademie der Wissenschaften der DDR, Berlin.
Zentralblatt Fur Chirurgie
|January 1, 1989
Abstract:
We reviewed 50 gastric cancer operations during the period from September 1984 to August 1985. The material illustrates the dominance of gram-negative rods and non-sporeforming anaerobes of endogenous gastric cancer microflora and also in postoperative wound infections. The organisms most frequently causing infection after operations are endogenous source. The postoperative wound infection rate was 36%. Therefore, the necessity of adequate use of antibacterial chemotherapeutics in wound infections is emphasized.