Application of manuka honey and GENADYNE A4 negative pressure wound therapy system in a 55-year-old woman with extensive phlegmonous and necrotic lesions in the abdominal integuments and lumbar region after traumatic rupture of the colon

Medical Science Monitor

Volumn 16, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 138-142

  Rudzka Nowak, Alina ^a   Łuczywek, PaweŁ ^a   Gajos, Maciej Jerzy ^a   Piechota, Mariusz ^a  

^a MEDICAL UNIVERSITY OF LODZ   (Poland)

Author keywords

Manuka honey; Negative pressure wound therapy system; Traumatic rupture of the colon

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; FLUCONAZOLE; LEPTOSPERMUM EXTRACT; LINEZOLID; MANUKA HONEY; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; NETILMICIN; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; PLANT EXTRACT; SULPERAZON; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG; FLUTAMIDE; SULFATHIAZOLE SILVER; ANTIINFECTIVE AGENT;

ACINETOBACTER BAUMANNII; ADULT; ANTIMICROBIAL ACTIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BLOOD TRANSFUSION; CANDIDA GLABRATA; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EVALUATION; COLON PERFORATION; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FEMALE; FEVER; HEMICOLECTOMY; HONEY; HUMAN; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTESTINE NECROSIS; KLEBSIELLA PNEUMONIAE; LEPTOSPERMUM; PERITONITIS; PHLEGMON; PSEUDOMONAS AERUGINOSA; SEPTIC SHOCK; SKIN AUTOGRAFT; SKIN INFLAMMATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND DRESSING; ABDOMINAL WALL DEFECT; INTEGUMENT; MANUKA HONEY; SKIN GRAFT; SKIN NECROSIS; WOUND HEALING; CHEMISTRY; COLON; DRUG EFFECT; INJURY; METHODOLOGY; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; PATHOLOGY; RUPTURE; WOUND INFECTION;

ANTI-INFECTIVE AGENTS; COLON; FEMALE; HONEY; HUMANS; LEPTOSPERMUM; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; RUPTURE; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING; WOUND INFECTION;

EID: 78249276478     PISSN: 12341010     EISSN: 16433750     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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