Conservative management of local Mycobacterium chelonae infection after combined liposuction and lipofilling

Aesthetic Plastic Surgery

Volumn 30, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 717-722

  Dessy, Luca A ^a,b   Mazzocchi, Marco ^a   Fioramonti, Paolo ^a   Scuderi, Nicolò ^a  

^a SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^b NONE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Lipofilling; Liposuction; Mycobacterium chelonae infection

Indexed keywords

CLARITHROMYCIN; MOXIFLOXACIN;

ANAMNESIS; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; HUMAN; LIPOSUCTION; LONG TERM CARE; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONEI; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; OPERATING ROOM; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL;

ADIPOSE TISSUE; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LIPECTOMY; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOBACTERIUM CHELONAE; MYCOBACTERIUM INFECTIONS, ATYPICAL; PREOPERATIVE CARE; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 33845511804     PISSN: 0364216X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00266-006-0031-x     Document Type: Article

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