Postoperative pyoderma gangrenosum: Diagnostic value of 16s ribosomal RNA sequencing and review of the literature

Clinical and Experimental Dermatology

Volumn 34, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 598-602

  Ferrandiz Pulido, C ^a   Bartralot, R ^b   Fuente, M J ^a   Heras, C ^a   Bassas, P ^a   Aparicio, G ^a   Bodet, D ^a   Mollet, J ^a   Tortola, M T ^a   Garcia Patos, V ^a  

^a HOSPITAL UNIVERSITARI VALL D HEBRON   (Spain)

^b University Hospital   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; ANTINEOPLASTIC AGENT; AZATHIOPRINE; CHLORHEXIDINE; METHYLPREDNISOLONE; PREDNISONE; RNA 16S; SULFADIAZINE SILVER;

ADULT; AORTA VALVE REPLACEMENT; ARTICLE; BREAST RECONSTRUCTION; CANCER RADIOTHERAPY; CASE REPORT; COLITIS; CONTROLLED STUDY; CROHN DISEASE; DEBRIDEMENT; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FEMALE; HERNIOPLASTY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; INGUINAL HERNIA; INTRADUCTAL CARCINOMA; LEUKOCYTOSIS; MALE; MASTECTOMY; METASTASIS; MICROORGANISM DETECTION; MYELOMONOCYTIC LEUKEMIA; PANCYTOPENIA; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; RNA SEQUENCE; SKIN INCISION; SURGICAL INFECTION; ULCER;

DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; PYODERMA GANGRENOSUM; RNA, RIBOSOMAL, 16S; SURGICAL WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 66449094313     PISSN: 03076938     EISSN: 13652230     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1365-2230.2008.03049.x     Document Type: Article

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