Prophylaxis against infection in total joint arthroplasty. One day of cefuroxime compared with three days of cefazolin.
- 1 January 1994
- journal article
- clinical trial
- Published by Wolters Kluwer Health in Journal of Bone and Joint Surgery
- Vol. 76 (1), 39-45
- https://doi.org/10.2106/00004623-199401000-00006
Abstract
The efficacy of cefuroxime was compared with the efficacy of cefazolin for prophylaxis against postoperative wound infection in a prospective, double-blind, multicenter study of 1354 patients who had had elective primary or revision total hip or knee arthroplasty. The patients were randomlyThis publication has 25 references indexed in Scilit:
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