Fournier gangrene. Approaches to diagnosis and treatment

Saudi Medical Journal

Volumn 27, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1038-1043

  Unal, Bulent ^a,b   Kocer, Belma ^a   Ozel, Ebru ^a   Bozkurt, Betul ^a   Yildirim, Osman ^a   Altun, Buket ^a   Dolapci, Mete ^a   Cengiz, Omer ^a  

^a ANKARA TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b NONE   (Turkey)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; AGED; ANAMNESIS; ANUS DISEASE; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOSTOMY; COMORBIDITY; CYSTOSTOMY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; INJECTION; INJURY; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MORTALITY; NONHUMAN; PERINEUM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; STAPHYLOCOCCUS INFECTION; TURKEY (REPUBLIC);

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; COLOSTOMY; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; FEMALE; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERINEUM;

EID: 33750288981     PISSN: 03795284     EISSN: 03795284     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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