Symmetrical necrotising chest wall infection following paronychia

Emergency Medicine Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 1998, Pages 58-59

  Banwell, P E ^a,b   Pereira, J ^a   Powell, B W E M ^a  

^a ST GEORGE S HOSPITAL   (United Kingdom)

^b NONE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Chest wall; Necrotising infection; Paronychia

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DEBRIDEMENT; EMERGENCY WARD; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCISION; INFECTION; LOCAL ANESTHESIA; PARONYCHIA; SKIN GRAFT; THORAX WALL; TISSUE NECROSIS; WOUND DRAINAGE;

DEBRIDEMENT; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PARONYCHIA; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; THORACIC DISEASES;

EID: 0031953401     PISSN: 13510622     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/emj.15.1.58     Document Type: Article

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