Necrotizing Chest Wall Infection after Blunt Trauma: Case Report and Review of the Literature

Journal of Trauma

Volumn 53, Issue 4, 2002, Pages 787-789

  Losanoff, Julian E ^a   Metzler, Michael H ^a   Richman, Bruce W ^a   Cotton, Bryan A ^a   Jones, James W ^a  

^a University of Missouri   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM;

ADULT; AORTOGRAPHY; ARTICLE; BLUNT TRAUMA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; FEMALE; GLASGOW COMA SCALE; HEMOPERITONEUM; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PNEUMOTHORAX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; THORAX DISEASE;

EID: 0036799848     PISSN: 00225282     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005373-200210000-00030     Document Type: Article

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