Abstract
A total of 437 patients with 463 cervical hip fractures were analyzed to determine whether perioperative urinary tract infection was related to postoperative wound and deep infection. Approximately 27% had a urinary tract infection and 6% had a wound or deep infection (following either the primary operation or an eventual reoperation) but only in two cases was the same organisms (E. coli) cultured from the urine and the wound infection. Bacteriuria should not be considered a cause for postponement of surgical treatment of a fracture of the neck of the femur.
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