Fournier's gangrene

Surgical Clinics of North America

Volumn 82, Issue 6, 2002, Pages 1213-1224

  Morpurgo, Emilio ^a   Galandiuk, Susan ^a  

^a University of Louisville School of Medicine   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEBRIDEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC APPROACH ROUTE; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HUMAN; MORTALITY; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RADIODIAGNOSIS; REVIEW; SURGICAL APPROACH; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE;

EID: 0036908186     PISSN: 00396109     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0039-6109(02)00058-0     Document Type: Article

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