Conventional open surgery versus percutaneous catheter drainage in the treatment of cervical necrotizing fasciitis and descending necrotizing mediastinitis

American Journal of Roentgenology

Volumn 182, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 1443-1449

  Nakamori, Yasushi ^a   Fujimi, Satoshi ^a   Ogura, Hiroshi ^a   Kuwagata, Yasuyuki ^a   Tanaka, Hiroshi ^a   Shimazu, Takeshi ^a   Ueda, Toshio ^a   Sugimoto, Hisashi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY MEDICAL SCHOOL   (Japan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANALGESIC AGENT; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CILASTATIN; IMIPENEM; PENICILLIN G POTASSIUM;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CATHETERIZATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; DESCENDING NECROTIZING MEDIASTINITIS; ECHOGRAPHY; FEEDING; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; INTERMETHOD COMPARISON; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PLASMA TRANSFUSION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SUPERINFECTION; SURGICAL DRAINAGE;

EID: 2442653060     PISSN: 0361803X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2214/ajr.182.6.1821443     Document Type: Article

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