Surgical treatment of extensive skin necrosis secondary to purpura fulminans in a patient with meningococcal sepsis

Burns

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 1998, Pages 272-274

  Arevalo J M ^a   Lorente, J A ^a   Fonseca, Raúl ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARIO DE GETAFE   (Spain)

Author keywords

Amputation; Flap; Meningococcal sepsis; Skin necrosis

Indexed keywords

ADULT; ARTICLE; AUTOGRAFT; BURN; CASE REPORT; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EXCISION; FULMINATING PURPURA; HUMAN; LIMB AMPUTATION; MALE; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; MORTALITY; SKIN NECROSIS;

ADULT; AMPUTATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; LEG; MALE; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; NECROSIS; PURPURA, SCHOENLEIN-HENOCH; REOPERATION; SEPSIS; SKIN; SKIN DISEASES; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 0032077704     PISSN: 03054179     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0305-4179(97)00120-4     Document Type: Article

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