Postoperative synergistic gangrene after spinal fusion

Spine

Volumn 25, Issue 13, 2000, Pages 1729-1732

  Kauffman, Christopher P ^a   Bono, Christopher M ^a   Vessa, Paul P ^b   Swan, Kenneth G ^a  

^a RUTGERS NEW JERSEY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

^b Somerset Orthopedic Associates   (United States)

Author keywords

Bacterial; Gangrene; Spinal fusion; Synergistic

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFAZOLIN; CLINDAMYCIN; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUCONAZOLE; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; NAFCILLIN; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT; OXYGEN; PENICILLIN G; STEROID; TOBRAMYCIN; VANCOMYCIN;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; FOLLOW UP; GANGRENE; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; ILIAC CREST; INTERVERTEBRAL DISK DEGENERATION; INTERVERTEBRAL DISKECTOMY; MALE; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SPINE FUSION;

ADULT; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACK PAIN; DEBRIDEMENT; DISKECTOMY; ESCHERICHIA COLI INFECTIONS; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; GANGRENE; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; SPINAL FUSION; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS;

EID: 0033911082     PISSN: 03622436     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00007632-200007010-00020     Document Type: Article

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