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SUBMITTER: Haidar YM
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6489503 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Feb
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Haidar Yarah M YM Tripathi Prem B PB Tjoa Tjoson T Walia Sartaaj S Zhang Lishi L Chen Yanjun Y Nguyen Danh V DV Mahboubi Hossein H Armstrong William B WB Goddard Julie A JA
Head & neck 20171030 2
<h4>Background</h4>Optimal antibiotic prophylaxis duration in head and neck clean-contaminated free-flap cases is unknown.<h4>Methods</h4>A systematic review/meta-analysis was conducted using PubMed/MEDLINE, Cochrane Library, Web-of-Science, and Scopus databases.<h4>Results</h4>Of the 3755 searched articles, 5 articles were included for a total of 861 patients. The recipient surgical site infection risk was significantly higher in patients receiving prophylactic antibiotics for ≤24 hours compare ...[more]