Fulminant necrotising fasciitis developing during long term corticosteroid treatment of systemic lupus erythematosus [2]

Annals of the Rheumatic Diseases

Volumn 61, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 848-849

  Hashimoto, N ^a   Sugiyama, H ^a   Asagoe, K ^a   Hara, K ^a   Yamasaki, O ^a   Yamasaki, Y ^a   Makino, H ^a  

^a OKAYAMA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORTICOSTEROID; FOSFOMYCIN; PREDNISOLONE; SULTAMICILLIN;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; FEMALE; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; INFECTION; INFECTION RISK; LETTER; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; PLASMAPHERESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SERRATIA MARCESCENS; SKIN CULTURE; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SYSTEMIC LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS;

FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FATAL OUTCOME; FEMALE; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; LUPUS ERYTHEMATOSUS, SYSTEMIC; MIDDLE AGED; PREDNISOLONE; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 0036720327     PISSN: 00034967     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1136/ard.61.9.848     Document Type: Letter

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