Hand infections: Basic principles and management

Surgical Infections

Volumn 5, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 210-220

  Spann, Marvin ^a   Talmor, Mia ^a   Nolan, William B ^a  

^a NEW YORK PRESBYTERIAN HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; AMIKACIN; AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; CARBAPENEM; CEFALEXIN; CEFTRIAXONE; CEFUROXIME; CIPROFLOXACIN; DICLOXACILLIN; FAMCICLOVIR; GENTAMICIN; ITRACONAZOLE; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; POTASSIUM IODIDE; SPECTINOMYCIN; VALACICLOVIR; VANCOMYCIN;

ABSCESS; ABSCESS DRAINAGE; BACTERIAL ARTHRITIS; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BITE; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE TRANSMISSION; ERYSIPELOTHRIX; FLEXOR TENDON; HAND INFECTION; HERPES ZOSTER; HUMAN; JOINT CAVITY; MYCOSIS; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NEISSERIA GONORRHOEAE; PARONYCHIA; PATHOLOGICAL ANATOMY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REVIEW; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TENDON SHEATH; TENOSYNOVITIS; THENAR; VIRUS INFECTION;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; CONNECTIVE TISSUE DISEASES; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HAND; HUMANS; MALE; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 10944248092     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2004.5.210     Document Type: Review

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