Necrotic soft-tissue infections and 'toxic shock syndrome';Nekrotisierende weichteilinfektionen und 'toxic shock syndrome'

Unfallchirurg

Volumn 101, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 74-80

  Kossmann, Th ^a   Gattiker, A ^a   Trentz, O ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIAL INFECTION; HISTOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; NECROSIS; REVIEW; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; IMMUNOLOGY; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; PROGNOSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK;

SUPERANTIGEN;

COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; HUMANS; PROGNOSIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SUPERANTIGENS;

EID: 0031607357     PISSN: 01775537     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001130050237     Document Type: Review

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