Plastic surgery management in pediatric meningococcal-induced purpura fulminans

Clinics in Plastic Surgery

Volumn 32, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 117-121

  Dinh, Tue A ^a   Friedman, Jeffrey ^a   Higuera, Stephen ^a  

^a BAYLOR COLLEGE OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; HEPARIN; PROTEIN C; PROTEIN S; STEROID;

BLEEDING; CLINICAL FEATURE; DEBRIDEMENT; FULMINATING PURPURA; HEARING LOSS; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; INTENSIVE CARE; LEECHING; MENINGOCOCCOSIS; MORTALITY; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PEDIATRIC SURGERY; PLASMAPHERESIS; PLASTIC SURGERY; REVIEW; SEPTIC SHOCK; SKIN DEFECT; SURVIVAL; ACUTE DISEASE; ANAPHYLACTOID PURPURA; ARTICLE; CHILD; PATHOLOGY; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION;

ACUTE DISEASE; CHILD; DEBRIDEMENT; HUMANS; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; PURPURA, SCHOENLEIN-HENOCH; SHOCK, SEPTIC; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION;

EID: 14744291216     PISSN: 00941298     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cps.2004.09.004     Document Type: Review

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