Fournier's gangrene: A retrospective clinical study on forty-one patients

ANZ Journal of Surgery

Volumn 75, Issue 12, 2005, Pages 1055-1058

  Ayan, Fadil ^a   Sunamak, Oguzhan ^a,b   Paksoy, Sabri M ^a   Polat, Semra S ^a   As, Abdullah ^a   Sakoglu, Nevin ^a   Cetinkale, Oguz ^a   Sirin, Feridun ^a  

^a ISTANBUL UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fournier's gangrene; Hyperbaric oxygen

Indexed keywords

AMINOGLYCOSIDE ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEPHALOSPORIN DERIVATIVE; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CAUSE OF DEATH; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOSTOMY; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EXCISION; FEMALE; FOURNIER GANGRENE; GENDER; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PATHOGENESIS; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEPTICEMIA; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; HYGIENE; MIDDLE AGED; SCROTUM;

ADULT; AGED; DEBRIDEMENT; FOURNIER GANGRENE; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; HYGIENE; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SCROTUM;

EID: 33645745500     PISSN: 14451433     EISSN: 14452197     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1445-2197.2005.03609.x     Document Type: Article

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