Therapeutical management of necrotizing neck infections;Therapeutisches management nekrotisierender weichteil-infektionen des halses

HNO

Volumn 51, Issue 12, 2003, Pages 986-992

  Rudack, C ^a   Eikenbusch, G ^a   Stoll, W ^a   Hermann, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL MÜNSTER   (Germany)

Author keywords

Neck dissection; Necrotizing fasciitis; Soft tissue infection; Therapy

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE; AMPHOTERICIN B; CLINDAMYCIN; IMIPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CANDIDA ALBICANS; CASE REPORT; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; FEMALE; FUSOBACTERIUM; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; NECK DISSECTION; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NECROTIZING NECK INFECTION; PROPIONIBACTERIACEAE; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM; CANDIDIASIS; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE COURSE; DRUG COMBINATION; DRUG EFFECT; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MULTIMODALITY CANCER THERAPY; NECK MUSCLE; PATHOLOGY; PHARYNGITIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SURVIVAL; TONSILLECTOMY; TONSILLITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIA; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; CANDIDIASIS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DISEASE PROGRESSION; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MICROBIAL SENSITIVITY TESTS; MIDDLE AGED; NECK MUSCLES; PHARYNGITIS; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SURVIVAL ANALYSIS; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TONSILLECTOMY; TONSILLITIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 0347985010     PISSN: 00176192     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00106-003-0854-6     Document Type: Article

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