The spectrum of presentation and management of fournier's gangrene - An experience of 73 cases

Journal of the Pakistan Medical Association

Volumn 60, Issue 8, 2010, Pages 617-619

  Malik, Arshad Mehmood ^a   Sheikh, Shiraz ^a   Pathan, Rafique ^a   Khan, Asad ^a   Sheikh, Ubedullah ^a  

^a LIAQUAT UNIVERSITY OF MEDICAL AND HEALTH SCIENCES   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; METRONIDAZOLE; PENICILLIN DERIVATIVE; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT; GLYCOSYLATED HEMOGLOBIN;

ADULT; AGED; ANORECTAL DISEASE; ANUS DISEASE; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CLINICAL TRIAL; COMORBIDITY; CONSERVATIVE TREATMENT; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES CONTROL; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE ACTIVITY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; FLUID THERAPY; FOURNIER GANGRENE; GENITAL TRACT INFECTION; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NONHUMAN; NUTRITIONAL SUPPORT; PROGNOSIS; PROSPECTIVE STUDY; RESUSCITATION; SKIN DISEASE; SKIN INFECTION; TISSUE CULTURE; TISSUE NECROSIS; TREATMENT RESPONSE; ESCHERICHIA COLI; ISOLATION AND PURIFICATION; LENGTH OF STAY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMORBIDITY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES COMPLICATIONS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HEMOGLOBIN A, GLYCOSYLATED; HUMANS; LENGTH OF STAY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROSPECTIVE STUDIES; STAPHYLOCOCCUS; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

EID: 77956416888     PISSN: 00309982     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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