Predisposing factors and treatment outcome in Fournier's gangrene: Analysis of 28 cases

Urologia Internationalis

Volumn 70, Issue 4, 2003, Pages 286-290

  Gürdal, Mesut ^a   Yücebas, Ergin ^a   Tekin, Ali ^a,b   Beysel, Melih ^a   Aslan, Rüknettin ^a   Şengör, Feridun ^a  

^a HAYDARPASA NUMUNE EDUCATION AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b Nişantaşi Yolu ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Debridement; Fournier's gangrene; Hyperbaric oxygen therapy; Management; Necrotizing fasciitis

Indexed keywords

OXYGEN;

ADJUVANT THERAPY; ADULT; AGED; ALCOHOL ABUSE; ANUS; ARTICLE; AXILLA; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOSTOMY; CYSTOSTOMY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HONEY; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; PARAPLEGIA; PERINEUM; PLASTIC SURGERY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECTUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SKIN; TISSUE TRANSPLANTATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UMBILICUS; UROGENITAL SYSTEM; WOUND HEALING;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FOURNIER GANGRENE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 0037963019     PISSN: 00421138     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1159/000070137     Document Type: Article

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