Fournier's gangrene in diabetic and renal failure patients

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 24, Issue 10, 2003, Pages 1105-1108

  Tayib, Abdulmalik M ^a   Mosli, Hisham A ^a   Abdulwahab, Mohamed H ^a   Atwa, Mahmoud A ^a  

^a KING ABDULAZIZ UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM CULTURE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLOSTOMY; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEATH; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ERADICATION THERAPY; ESCHERICHIA COLI; EXPERIENCE; FOURNIER GANGRENE; GENDER; HEMODIALYSIS; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; KIDNEY FAILURE; KLEBSIELLA; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MEDICAL SPECIALIST; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; ORCHIECTOMY; PATIENT CARE; PATIENT REFERRAL; PROGNOSIS; RECTOSCOPY; REVIEW; SAUDI ARABIA; SEPSIS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS HAEMOLYTICUS; STREPTOCOCCUS; SUPRAPUBIC CATHETER; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL; URETHROGRAPHY; URINARY DIVERSION;

AGED; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HOSPITALS, UNIVERSITY; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SAUDI ARABIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0242468396     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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