title: Risk factors for surgical wound infections in patients undergoing head and neck oncologic surgery.
abstract: Risk factors for surgical wound infection are difficult to establish in head and neck surgery. Flap reconstruction, which correlates with tumour size and surgical procedure, appears to be the main risk factor. Attempts should be made by the surgical staff to improve surgical procedures in terms of duration of surgery and choice of the procedure. The intraoperative choice between primary closure and flap reconstruction should be studied further. More subtle risk factors may appear in studies of large groups of patients and/or if a distinction is drawn between early and late SWI.
authors.affiliation: Service ORL, Hôpital Bichat Claude Bernard, Paris.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Barry
authors.forename: J C
authors.initials: JC
authors.lastname: Lucet
authors.forename: M J
authors.initials: MJ
authors.lastname: Kosmann
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Gehanno
mesh_terms: D019072:Antibiotic Prophylaxis; D005260:Female; D006258:Head and Neck Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D015999:Multivariate Analysis; D012044:Regression Analysis; D012307:Risk Factors; D013524:Surgical Flaps / Q000382:microbiology; D013530:Surgical Wound Infection / Q000453:epidemiology*