Operating Room Ventilation With Laminar Airflow Shows No Protective Effect on the Surgical Site Infection Rate in Orthopedic and Abdominal Surgery

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• Publication year

  2008

• Venue

  Annals of Surgery

• Publication date

  2008-11-01

• Fields of study

  Medicine, Environmental Science

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  DOI 10.1097/SLA.0b013e31818b757dPMID 18948793
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  Semantic Scholar, PubMed

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