Descending necrotizing mediastinitis. Results of medical-surgical treatment in 17 cases;Mediastinitis necrosante descendente. Resultados del tratamiento médico-quirúrgico en 17 casos

Gaceta Medica de Mexico

Volumn 139, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 199-204

  Pérez R, Abel ^a   Cueto Robledo, Guillermo ^a   De la Escosura R, Gabriel ^a   Cicero S, Raúl ^b  

^a HOSPITAL GENERAL DE MÉXICO   (Mexico)

^b HGM ^*

Author keywords

Descending necrotizing mediastinitis; Mediastinotomy; Odontogenic abscess; Retropharyngeal abscess; Submaxillary abscess

Indexed keywords

ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACUTE DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DESCENDING NECROTIZING MEDIASTINITIS; FEMALE; GASTROINTESTINAL HEMORRHAGE; HUMAN; LUNG INJURY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDICAL PRACTICE; OBSERVATION; PATIENT SELECTION; PERIODONTITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; RETROPHARYNGEAL ABSCESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPTIC SHOCK; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUBMANDIBULAR GLAND; SURGICAL MORTALITY; SURVIVAL; THORACOTOMY; TRACHEOSTOMY;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; DRAINAGE; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RADIOGRAPHY, THORACIC; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACOTOMY; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED;

EID: 0038345675     PISSN: 00163813     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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