Necrotizing fasciitis: An indication for hyperbaric oxygenation therapy?

Surgery

Volumn 118, Issue 5, 1995, Pages 873-878

  Shupak, Avi ^a,b   Oren, Shoshani ^a,b   Goldenberg, Ilan ^a,b   Barzilai, Ami ^a,b   Moskuna, Ron ^a,b   Bursztein, Shimon ^a,b  

^a MEDICAL CORPS   (Israel)

^b RAMBAM MEDICAL CENTER   (Israel)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; EXCISION; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RISK FACTOR; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES;

EID: 0028848467     PISSN: 00396060     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6060(05)80278-8     Document Type: Article

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