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A prospective study of postoperative fever--a clinical epidemiologic study
A K Mortagy1, I Khamis, M Kotb
1Department of Community Medicine, Ain Shams Faculty of Medicine.
The Journal of the Egyptian Public Health Association
|January 1, 1993
Abstract:
During a 12 months period 693 patients undergoing surgical procedures were prospectively studied to investigate the etiology of postoperative fever. The overall rate of fever was similar for the three categories of surgical procedures studied. No cause of fever was found in 5%, 2.7% and 1.7% of patients who underwent clean, clean contaminated and contaminated surgical procedures.