Management of Descending Necrotizing Mediastinitis

Laryngoscope

Volumn 114, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 772-775

  Makeieff, Marc ^a   Gresillon, Nicolas ^a   Berthet, Jean Philippe ^b   Garrel, Renaud ^a   Crampette, Louis ^a   Marty Ane, Charles ^b   Guerrier, Bernard ^a  

^a GUI DE CHAULIAC HOSPITAL   (France)

^b HÔPITAL ARNAUD DE VILLENEUVE   (France)

Author keywords

Anaerobic infections; Head and neck; Mediastinitis

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAM ANTIBIOTIC; IMIDAZOLE DERIVATIVE; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESCENDING NECROTIZING MEDIASTINITIS; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LARYNGITIS; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MORTALITY; PHARYNGITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; THORACOTOMY; TOOTH DISEASE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; BACTERIAL INFECTION; GRAM NEGATIVE INFECTION; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS; WOUND DRAINAGE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; DRAINAGE; FEMALE; GRAM-NEGATIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LARYNGITIS; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PERITONSILLAR ABSCESS; PHARYNGITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; THORACOTOMY;

EID: 1842557886     PISSN: 0023852X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/00005537-200404000-00035     Document Type: Article

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