Plastic surgery management of soft tissue loss in meningococcal septicemia: Experience of the Melbourne royal children's hospital

Annals of Plastic Surgery

Volumn 58, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 308-314

  Penington, Anthony J ^a   Craft, Randall O ^a   Tilkorn, Daniel J ^a  

^a ROYAL CHILDREN'S HOSPITAL   (Australia)

Author keywords

Meningococcemia; Soft tissue loss

Indexed keywords

ADOLESCENT; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; AUSTRALIA; CHILD; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; HUMAN; INFANT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MENINGOCOCCEMIA; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; PLASTIC SURGERY; PREDICTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SKIN FLAP; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SOFT TISSUE DISEASE; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; TISSUE NECROSIS;

AMPUTATION; AUSTRALIA; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; HOSPITALS, PEDIATRIC; HUMANS; MALE; MENINGOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; NECROSIS; NEISSERIA MENINGITIDIS; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; SEPSIS; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS;

EID: 34247633515     PISSN: 01487043     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/01.sap.0000237642.46000.e6     Document Type: Article

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