Thigh cellulitis caused by toothpick ingestion [3]

Intensive Care Medicine

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 662-663

  Lellouche, N ^a   Ayoub, N ^a   Bruneel, F ^a   Mignon, F ^a   Troche, G ^a   Boisrenoult, P ^a   Bedos J P ^a  

^a CENTRE HOSPITALIER DE VERSAILLES   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; NONSTEROID ANTIINFLAMMATORY AGENT;

AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; BACTERIUM CULTURE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTEROIDES THETAIOTAOMICRON; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE COURSE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEVER; FOREIGN BODY REACTION; HUMAN; INGESTION; LETTER; MALE; PHYSICAL DISABILITY; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; PREOPERATIVE EVALUATION; STREPTOCOCCUS CONSTELLATUS; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

AGED; CELLULITIS; FATAL OUTCOME; FOREIGN BODIES; HUMANS; INTESTINAL PERFORATION; MALE; THIGH; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0037396852     PISSN: 03424642     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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