Coumadin-induced skin necrosis

Wounds

Volumn 14, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 217-220

  Beitz, Janice M ^a  

^a LA SALLE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTICOAGULANT AGENT; ANTITHROMBIN III; CORTICOSTEROID; DEXTRAN; DICOUMAROL; ENOXAPARIN; HEPARIN; OXYGEN; PROTEIN C; PROTEIN S; SULFADIAZINE SILVER; VASODILATOR AGENT; VITAMIN K GROUP; WARFARIN;

AGE; ANTICOAGULANT THERAPY; BIOPSY; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORONARY ARTERY THROMBOSIS; DEEP VEIN THROMBOSIS; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; DISEASE SEVERITY; DRUG INDUCED DISEASE; GANGRENE; HEPARINIZATION; HIGH RISK POPULATION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; LUNG EMBOLISM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; OBESITY; OCCLUSIVE CEREBROVASCULAR DISEASE; OXYGEN THERAPY; PATHOGENESIS; PROPHYLAXIS; REVIEW; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN NECROSIS; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; SYMPATHETIC BLOCKING; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CARE;

EID: 0035983013     PISSN: 10447946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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