Case report: Implications for a patient diagnosed with Fournier's gangrene

Wounds

Volumn 14, Issue 9, 2002, Pages 340-347

  Ribo, Julie C ^a,b   Boucher, Brenda ^a   Merwarth, Diane ^a   Olive, Janus ^a  

^a TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; COMORBIDITY; DEBRIDEMENT; FLUID THERAPY; FOURNIER GANGRENE; GAIT; HUMAN; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PATHOPHYSIOLOGY; PATIENT ATTITUDE; PATIENT EDUCATION; PHYSIOTHERAPIST; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEPTIC SHOCK; SPLIT THICKNESS SKIN GRAFT; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CARE;

EID: 0036873551     PISSN: 10447946     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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