Necrotizing soft tissue infections

Surgical Practice

Volumn 11, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 17-28

  Paramythiotis, Daniel ^a   Koukoutsis, Helias ^b   Harlaftis, Nick ^a  

^a ARISTOTLE UNIVERSITY OF THESSALONIKI   (Greece)

^b 492 General Military Hospital   (Greece)

Author keywords

Fournier's gangrene; Necrotizing fasciitis; Necrotizing soft tissue infection; Soft tissue

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; BETA LACTAMASE INHIBITOR; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN G; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; TIMENTIN;

ABDOMINAL DISEASE; ADULT; AGED; AGING; ANATOMICAL VARIATION; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARM DISEASE; CELLULITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FASCIA; FEMALE; FOURNIER GANGRENE; GANGRENE; GAS GANGRENE; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; INFECTION SENSITIVITY; LEG DISEASE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MELENEY HEMOLYTIC STREPTOCOCCAL GANGRENE; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; MUSCLE NECROSIS; MYOSITIS; NECROTIZING APONEUROSITIS TYPE 1; NECROTIZING APONEUROSITIS TYPE 2; PERINEUM; REVIEW; SEPSIS; SEPTIC SHOCK; SKIN NECROSIS; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STREPTOCOCCUS INFECTION; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SURVIVAL RATE; TISSUE NECROSIS; TOTAL PARENTERAL NUTRITION; TRUNK;

EID: 33845931269     PISSN: 17441625     EISSN: 17441633     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1744-1633.2007.00330.x     Document Type: Review

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