Toxic shock syndrome following thoracic surgery for lung cancer: Report of a case

Surgery Today

Volumn 37, Issue 7, 2007, Pages 587-589

  Shoji, Fumihiro ^a   Yoshino, Ichiro ^a   Osoegawa, Atsushi ^a   Yano, Tokujiro ^b   Maehara, Yoshihiko ^a  

^a KYUSHU UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b Saga Prefectural Hospital   (Japan)

Author keywords

Postoperative toxic shock syndrome; Steroid therapy; Thoracic surgery

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; STEROID;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; HUMAN; LUNG CANCER; LUNG SURGERY; MALE; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; THORAX SURGERY; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; CEFAZOLIN; DRUG THERAPY, COMBINATION; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; GLUCOCORTICOIDS; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAVENOUS; LUNG NEOPLASMS; MALE; METHICILLIN RESISTANCE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; MIDDLE AGED; PNEUMONECTOMY; SHOCK, SEPTIC; STAPHYLOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 34347223620     PISSN: 09411291     EISSN: 14362813     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00595-007-3461-4     Document Type: Article

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