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Dis Colon Rectum
; 23(2): 98-101, 1980 Mar.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-7379664
ABSTRACT
A study of 77 patients undergoing elective operations on the colon and rectum, where wounds were subject to contamination by fecal flora, did not demonstrate that the addition of a preoperative oral regime to parenteral antibiotics alone further decreased the incidence of wound infection. The authors feel that the use of single-dose clindamycin and cephazolin intravenously preoperatively has been shown to be a very effective method of preventing wound infection in elective colonic resections.