Surgical concept and results in necrotizing fasciitis;Chirurgisches Konzept und Ergebnisse bei nekrotisierender Fasciitis

Chirurg

Volumn 72, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 168-173

  Heitmann, C ^a,b   Pelzer, M ^a   Bickert, B ^a   Menke, H ^a   Germann, G ^a  

^a BG UNFALLKLINIK LUDWIGSHAFEN   (Germany)

^b Plastische Handchirurgie Univ H   (Germany)

Author keywords

Necrotizing fasciitis; Rapidly progressive soft tissue infection; Streptococcal toxic shock syndrome

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; PLASTIC SURGERY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTIC SHOCK; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TIME; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; DEBRIDEMENT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL FLAPS; TIME FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0035257121     PISSN: 00094722     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s001040051287     Document Type: Article

References (26)

1. Billing A, Arendt R, Arnold H, Schildberg F (1997) Die nekrotisierende Fasciitis. Langenbecks Arch Chir Suppl Kongressbd 114:508
2. Bilton B, Zibari G, McMillan R, Aultman D, et al (1998) Aggressive surgical management of necrotizing fasciitis serves to decrease mortality: a retrospective study. Am Surg 64: 397
3. Bisno A, Stevens D (1996) Streptococcal infections of skin and soft tissue. N Engl J Med 344: 240
4. Broll R, Eckmann C, Kujath P, Bruch HP (1998) Streptococcal toxic shock-like syndrome. Chirurg 69: 806
5. Brook I, Frazier E (1995) Clinical and microbiological features of necrotizing fasciitis. J Clin Microbiol 33: 2382
6. Burge T, Watson J (1994) Necrotising fasciitis. BMJ 308: 1453
7. Burge T (1993) Hyperbaric oxygen - still unproved in necrotizing fasciitis. BMJ 307: 936
8. Donaldson P, Naylor B, Lowe J, Gouldesbrough (1994) Rapidly fatal necrotizing fasciitis caused by Streptococus pyogenes. J Clin Pathol 46: 617
9. Feingold DS. (1982) Gangrenous and crepitant cellulitis (1982) J Am Acad Dermatol 6: 289
10. File T (1998) Diagnosis and treating the "flesh eating bacteria Syndrome". Cleveland Clin J Med 65: 241
11. Fisher J, Convay M, Takeshita R, Sandoval M (1979) Necrotizing fasciitis. JAMA 241: 803
12. Freischlag J, Ajalat G, Busuttil R (1985) Treatment of necrotizing soft tissue infections. Am J Surg 14: 751
13. Giuliano A, Lewis F, Hadley K, Blaisdell F (1979) Bacteriology of necrotizing fasciitis. Am J Surg 134: 53
14. Jones J (1871) Investigations upon the nature, causes and treatment of hospital gangrene as it prevailed in the confederate armies 1861-1865. In: Hamilton FH (ed) United States Sanitary Comission, Memoirs. Surgical Vol II. Riverside Press, New York, p 146
15. Kaul R, McGeer A, Low D, Green K (1997) Population based surveillance for group A streptococcal necrotizing fasciitis: clinical features, prognostic indicators, and microbiologic analysis of seventy seven cases. Am J Med 103:18
16. Kossmann T, Gattiker A, Trentz O (1998) Nekrotisierende Weichteilinfektionen und toxic shock syndrome. Unfallchirurg 101:74
17. Kujath P, Eckmann C, Benecke P (1996) Die standardisierte Behandlung der nekrotisierenden Fasciitis. Zentralbl Chir 121:35
18. Loudon L (1994) Necrotizing fasciitis, hospital gangrene, and phagena. Lancet 344:1416
19. McHenry C, Piotrowski J, Petrinick D, Malangoni M (1995) Determinants for mortality for necrotizing soft tissue infections. Ann Surg 221:558
20. Meleney F (1924) Hemolytic streptococcus gangrene. Arch Surg 9: 317
21. Rieger H, Baranowski D, Mertes N, Wörheide J, et al (1992) Zur nekrotisierenden Fasciitis. Chirurg 63:82
22. Schumpelick V, Bertram P (1997) Pyogene Infektionen der Haut und Hautanhangsgebilde. Langenbecks Arch Chir Suppl Kongressbd 114:483
23. Stevens D (1999) The flesh eating bacterium: what's next? 179: 366 J Infect Dis
24. The working group on severe streptococcal infections (1993) Defining the group A streptococcal toxic shock syndrome. JAMA 269: 390
25. Ward R, Walsh M (1991) Necrotizing fasciitis: 10 years experience in a district general hospital. Br J Surg 78:488
26. Wilson B (1952) Necrotizing fasciitis. Am Surg 18: 416