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The Effect of Surrounding Bacterial Contamination and Infection upon the Healing of Colon Wounds in Dogs
Author(s) -
Ryan Peter
Publication year - 1969
Publication title -
australian and new zealand journal of surgery
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.111
H-Index - 51
eISSN - 1445-2197
pISSN - 0004-8682
DOI - 10.1111/j.1445-2197.1969.tb05571.x
Subject(s) - medicine , concomitant , suture line , sepsis , anastomosis , wound healing , fibrous joint , distal colon , inflammation , surgery
Macroscopic and functional healing of 10 colon anastomoses and 18 colon wounds in all 28 dogs which survived such operations for one week or more took place in spite of the concomitant development of abscesses adjacent to them in 25 of the 28 cases. Histological evidence of inflammation at the suture line was more pronounced the more severe the adjacent infection, but there was inswficient evidence to say whether or not histological healing was delayed or impaired by sepsis of this kind .