Management of Fournier's gangrene: Review of 45 cases

Surgery Today

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 558-563

  Basoglu, Mahmut ^a   Ozbey, Isa ^a   Atamanalp, Sabri Selcuk ^a   Yildirgan, Mehmet Ilhan ^a   Aydinli, Bulent ^a   Polat, Ozkan ^a   Ozturk, Gurkan ^a   Peker, Kemal ^a   Onbas, Omer ^a   Oren, Durkaya ^a  

^a ATATURK UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fournier's gangrene; Necrotizing fasciitis; Prognosis

Indexed keywords

ABSCESS; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL DISEASE; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HUMAN; INFECTION; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD; MORTALITY; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; DEBRIDEMENT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HUMANS; INCIDENCE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PERINEUM; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, X-RAY COMPUTED; TURKEY;

EID: 34347212878     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-006-3391-6     Document Type: Article

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