Fluoroscopy-induced skin necrosis

Archives of Dermatology

Volumn 139, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 140-142

  Lee, Jin ^a   Hoss, Diane ^b   Phillips, Tania J ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CONNECTICUT HEALTH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CIPROFLOXACIN; CORTICOSTEROID; DAPSONE; ERYTHROMYCIN; FLUOCINOLONE; PREDNISONE; TRIAMCINOLONE;

ADULT; ALPHA HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCUS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORTICOSTEROID THERAPY; CORYNEBACTERIUM DIPHTHERIAE; DEBRIDEMENT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG MEGADOSE; ENTEROCOCCUS; FLUOROSCOPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; LABORATORY TEST; MALE; PERCUTANEOUS TRANSLUMINAL ANGIOPLASTY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN NECROSIS; STREPTOCOCCUS AGALACTIAE; WOUND DRESSING;

ANGIOPLASTY; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BIOPSY, NEEDLE; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CORONARY DISEASE; DEBRIDEMENT; FLUOROSCOPY; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; RADIOGRAPHY, INTERVENTIONAL; RISK ASSESSMENT; SKIN ULCER; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0037320001     PISSN: 0003987X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archderm.139.2.140     Document Type: Article

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