Healing of Fournier's gangrene of the scrotum in a haemodialysis patient after conservative therapy alone

Nephrology Dialysis Transplantation

Volumn 15, Issue 3, 2000, Pages 419-421

  Horita, Yoshio ^a   Miyazaki, Masanobu ^a   Noguchi, Mitsuru ^b   Tadokoro, Masato ^b   Taura, Kouichi ^b   Ozono, Yoshiyuki ^a   Kohno, Shigeru ^a  

^a NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (Japan)

^b NAGASAKI UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Chronic renal failure; Dialysis; Fournier's gangrene; Medical treatment

Indexed keywords

CEFPIROME; DISINFECTANT AGENT; LOMEFLOXACIN; WATER;

AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HEMODIALYSIS PATIENT; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; MORTALITY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SCROTUM DISORDER;

EID: 0033997208     PISSN: 09310509     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/ndt/15.3.419     Document Type: Article

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