Descending necrotizing mediastinitis: Contemporary trends in etiology, diagnosis, management, and outcome

Annals of Surgery

Volumn 251, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 528-534

  Ridder, Gerd J ^a   Maier, Wolfgang ^a   Kinzer, Susanne ^a   Teszler, Christian B ^a,b   Boedeker, Carsten C ^a   Pfeiffer, Jens ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FREIBURG   (Germany)

^b FONDATION OPHTALMOLOGIQUE ADOLPHE DE ROTHSCHILD   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEPHALOSPORIN; CLINDAMYCIN; METRONIDAZOLE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANAEROBIC INFECTION; ARTICLE; BACTEROIDES; CANDIDA; CATHETER INFECTION; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DESCENDING NECROTIZING MEDIASTINITIS; FEMALE; FOREIGN BODY; FUSOBACTERIUM; HUMAN; IMMUNE FUNCTION TEST; INFECTION; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MEDIASTINUM; MORBIDITY; MORTALITY; NECK; PEPTOSTREPTOCOCCUS; PHARYNGITIS; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK FACTOR; SCHOOL CHILD; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; STREPTOCOCCUS CONSTELLATUS; STREPTOCOCCUS INTERMEDIUS; STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES; SURVIVAL; TISSUE OXYGENATION; TOOTH INFECTION; TRACHEA DISEASE;

ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHILD; CHILD, PRESCHOOL; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MEDIASTINITIS; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 77649127631     PISSN: 00034932     EISSN: 15281140     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1097/SLA.0b013e3181c1b0d1     Document Type: Article

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