Nonoperative catheter management for cervical necrotizing fasciitis with and without descending necrotizing mediastinitis

Archives of Otolaryngology - Head and Neck Surgery

Volumn 134, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 750-756

  Sumi, Yuka ^a,c,d   Ogura, Hiroshi ^a   Nakamori, Yasushi ^b   Ukai, Isao ^a   Tasaki, Osamu ^a   Kuwagata, Yasuyuki ^a   Shimazu, Takeshi ^a   Tanaka, Hiroshi ^a   Sugimoto, Hisashi ^a  

^a OSAKA UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b OSAKA GENERAL MEDICAL CENTER   (Japan)

^c Osaka ^*  (Japan)

^d HARVARD MEDICAL SCHOOL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CILASTATIN PLUS IMIPENEM; PENICILLIN G POTASSIUM;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CATHETERIZATION; CERVICAL NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLOSTRIDIUM; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DESCENDING NECROTIZING MEDIASTINITIS; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE COURSE; DRAIN; ECHOGRAPHY; FEMALE; FLUOROSCOPY; HUMAN; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MORTALITY; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; PERCUTANEOUS DRAINAGE; PHARYNGITIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; TOOTH INFECTION; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; CATHETERS, INDWELLING; CRITICAL CARE; DRAINAGE; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; NECK; OTORHINOLARYNGOLOGIC DISEASES; RESPIRATION, ARTIFICIAL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SURVIVAL RATE; TOMOGRAPHY, SPIRAL COMPUTED; ULTRASONOGRAPHY;

EID: 47949114375     PISSN: 08864470     EISSN: 08864470     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1001/archotol.134.7.750     Document Type: Article

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