Approach for Drainage of Descending Necrotizing Mediastinitis on the Basis of the Extending Progression from Deep Neck Infection to Mediastinitis

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 53, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 112-116

  Moriwaki, Yoshihiro ^a   Sugiyama, Mitsugi ^a   Matsuda, Goro ^a   Date, Koichiro ^a   Karube, Norihisa ^a   Uchida, Keiji ^a   Yamamoto, Toshiro ^a   Hasegawa, Satoshi ^a  

^a YOKOHAMA CITY UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INCISION; INFECTION; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; NECK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STREPTOCOCCUS; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; ABSCESS; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; EDEMA; HOSPITALIZATION; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PAIN; RADIOGRAPHY; RETROPHARYNGEAL ABSCESS; SEPSIS; WOUND DRAINAGE;

AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; AIRWAY OBSTRUCTION; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRAINAGE; EDEMA; FEMALE; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; NECROSIS; PAIN; RETROPHARYNGEAL ABSCESS; SEPSIS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SUPPURATION; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0036634075     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-200207000-00023     Document Type: Article

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