| Literature DB >> 11972078 |
Laurence E Dahners1, Gary D Bos.
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The authors have found that several months of preoperative tetracycline administration will label living bone so that it fluoresces under a blacklight during surgery. This allows intraoperative differentiation of viable bone from necrotic sequestra, which require removal in the treatment of chronic bone infection.Entities:
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Year: 2002 PMID: 11972078 DOI: 10.1097/00005131-200205000-00009
Source DB: PubMed Journal: J Orthop Trauma ISSN: 0890-5339 Impact factor: 2.512