Fournier's gangrene: Ten-year experience in a medical center in northern Taiwan

Journal of Microbiology, Immunology and Infection

Volumn 40, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 500-506

  Kuo, Chen Feng ^a   Wang, Wei Sheng ^a   Lee, Chun Ming ^a   Liu, Chang Pan ^a,b   Tseng, Hsiang Kuang ^a  

^a MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

^b Mackay Junior School of Nursing   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Fasciitis, necrotizing; Fournier gangrene; Infection

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES FRAGILIS; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; CHRONIC LIVER DISEASE; CLINICAL ARTICLE; COLORECTAL DISEASE; COLOSTOMY; COMORBIDITY; CYSTOSTOMY; DEBRIDEMENT; DERMATOLOGY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; ENTEROCOCCACEAE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; KIDNEY FAILURE; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; LIVER FAILURE; MALE; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MORTALITY; ORCHIECTOMY; PATHOGENESIS; PENIS AMPUTATION; PLASTIC SURGERY; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PROTEUS MIRABILIS; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; SEPTIC SHOCK; SEPTICEMIA; SURGICAL TECHNIQUE; TAIWAN; TREATMENT INDICATION; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; VASECTOMY;

ACADEMIC MEDICAL CENTERS; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; BACTERIA; CAUSALITY; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TAIWAN;

EID: 40649089877     PISSN: 16841182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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