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Prophylactic use of metronidazole in preventing wound sepsis after elective cholecystectomy
The British Journal of Surgery
|August 1, 1980
Abstract:
The effect of intravenous metronidazole as prophylaxis against postoperative wound infection was studied in a prospective, randomized, double-blind controlled trial of 116 patients undergoing elective cholecystectomy. No significant difference was found in the infection rate between the treated and the control groups.