Fournier's gangrene: Management at a regional burn center

Journal of Burn Care and Research

Volumn 29, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 196-203

  Saffle, Jeffrey R ^a   Morris, Stephen E ^a   Edelman, Linda ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UTAH   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ABDOMINAL WALL; ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BLOOD PRESSURE MEASUREMENT; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLOSTOMY; CYSTOSTOMY; DATA BASE; DEMOGRAPHY; DIABETES MELLITUS; FASCIA; FEMALE; FOURNIER GANGRENE; GENDER; HEALTH CARE COST; HEALTH CENTER; HOSPITAL DISCHARGE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; IMMUNE DEFICIENCY; LOGISTIC REGRESSION ANALYSIS; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORBID OBESITY; MORTALITY; ORCHIECTOMY; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; PERINEUM; SHOCK; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; SURVIVAL RATE; SUTURING METHOD; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; WOUND CLOSURE;

ADULT; AGED; BURN UNITS; BURNS; CRITICAL ILLNESS; DIABETES MELLITUS; FEMALE; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; OBESITY; PATIENT CARE TEAM; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 38049094363     PISSN: 1559047X     EISSN: 15590488     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/BCR.0b013e318160daba     Document Type: Article

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