Necrotizing fasciitis in children: diagnostic and therapeutic aspects

Journal of Pediatric Surgery

Volumn 42, Issue 11, 2007, Pages 1892-1897

  Bingöl Koloǧlu, Meltem ^a   Yildiz, Rahşan Vargün ^a   Alper, Bilal ^a   Yaǧmurlu, Aydin ^a   Çiftçi, Ergin ^a   Gökçora, Ismail Haluk ^a   Ince, Erdal ^a   Emiroǧlu, Murat ^a   Dindar, Hüseyin ^a  

^a ANKARA UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Children; Necrotizing fasciitis; Soft tissue infections; Streptococcus pyogenes

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MENTHOL;

ABDOMINAL WALL; ARTICLE; BLISTER; CAUSE OF DEATH; CELLULITIS; CHICKENPOX; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CREAM; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE SEVERITY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; INCIDENCE; LETHALITY; MALE; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NEWBORN; NONHUMAN; OMPHALITIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SKIN DISCOLORATION; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; STAPHYLOCOCCUS EPIDERMIDIS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SUBCUTANEOUS TISSUE; SURVIVAL; TACHYCARDIA; THIGH; TOOTH ABSCESS; TOXIC SHOCK SYNDROME; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND CARE;

ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEBRIDEMENT; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INFANT; INFANT, NEWBORN; MALE; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK ASSESSMENT; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; STREPTOCOCCAL INFECTIONS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SURVIVAL RATE; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 36048936705     PISSN: 00223468     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jpedsurg.2007.07.018     Document Type: Article

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