Zentralblatt für Chirurgie
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After twenty years of clean-air operating rooms, no uniform opinion about the efficiency in preventing infections has been achieved. The reason is that with an infection rate around 1% only very large series of homologous material are statistically significant. Vertical flow is more efficient than horizontal flow. Clean-air technique is only one of the many facets of antisepsis and asepsis; it should be used especially in implantation and transplantation surgery in spite of the fact that its efficiency is not yet clearly proven.
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Yersinia enterocolitica is a pathogenic organism, hitherto being of minor clinical interest only. In all unclear abdominal complaints especially in the right middle or lower part of the abdomen a Yersinia enterocolitica infection should also be taken into consideration.--Specific diagnostic measures have to be taken and in a suspected case antibiotics should be administered.--In every case an appendectomy has to be performed and a lymphnode should be extirpated and sent for histologic and microbiological examination.
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Case Reports Historical Article
[History of gastrotomy for the removal of foreign bodies].