Pancreatic necrosis: To debride or not to debride - That is the question

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 232, Issue 5, 2000, Pages 627-629

  Warshaw, Andrew L ^a,b  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

^b HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ASPIRATION BIOPSY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; HUMAN; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANCREAS NECROSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; RISK FACTOR; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SYSTEMIC INFLAMMATORY RESPONSE SYNDROME; TISSUE INJURY;

BIOPSY, NEEDLE; CILASTATIN; DEBRIDEMENT; HUMANS; IMIPENEM; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; PANCREATITIS, ACUTE NECROTIZING; PROTEASE INHIBITORS; RISK FACTORS; THIENAMYCINS;

EID: 0033735319     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00000658-200011000-00002     Document Type: Review

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