The continuing challenge of fournier's gangrene in the 1990s

American Surgeon

Volumn 65, Issue 12, 1999, Pages 1156-1159

  Olsofka, John N ^a   Carrillo, Eddy H ^a   Spain, David A ^a   Polk Jr , Hiram C ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; PROGNOSIS; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL;

ADULT; AGE FACTORS; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BLOOD GLUCOSE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CREATININE; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HUMANS; ISCHEMIA; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PENILE DISEASES; PERINEUM; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCROTUM; SERUM ALBUMIN; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SURVIVAL RATE; THROMBOSIS;

EID: 0032730772     PISSN: 00031348     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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