Meningococcal purpura fulminans treated with medicinal leeches

Pediatric Critical Care Medicine

Volumn 7, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 476-478

  Dippenaar, Ricky ^a   Smith, Johan ^a   Goussard, Pierre ^a   Walters, Elisabetta ^a  

^a STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

Child; Fulminans; Leech; Medicinal; Meningococcal; Purpura

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONVALESCENCE; DEBRIDEMENT; EPIDEMIC MENINGITIS; FEMALE; FINGER; FULMINATING PURPURA; FUNCTIONAL ASSESSMENT; HAND; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INFANT; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; LEECHING; LIMB ISCHEMIA; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; NONHUMAN; PERFUSION; PHALANX; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEPTICEMIA; THROMBOEMBOLISM; THUMB; TREATMENT INDICATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

BACTEREMIA; FEMALE; FINGERS; GANGRENE; HUMANS; INFANT; LEECHING; MENINGITIS, MENINGOCOCCAL; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; PURPURA, SCHOENLEIN-HENOCH;

EID: 33748668814     PISSN: 15297535     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.PCC.0000235422.23812.B4     Document Type: Article

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