Can necrotizing infectious fasciitis be differentiated from nonnecrotizing infectious fasciitis with MR imaging?

Radiology

Volumn 259, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 816-824

  Kim, Kyoung Tae ^a   Kim, Yeo Ju ^a   Lee, Ju Won ^a   Kim, Youn Jeong ^a   Park, Sun Won ^a,b   Lim, Myung Kwan ^a   Suh, Chang Hae ^a  

^a Inha University Hospital   (South Korea)

^b Seoul National University   (South Korea)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CREATININE; GADODIAMIDE; GLUCOSE; HEMOGLOBIN; SODIUM;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CHILD; CLINICAL ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; CONTROLLED STUDY; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DIAGNOSTIC IMAGING; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE CLASSIFICATION; DISEASE COURSE; ERYTHROCYTE SEDIMENTATION RATE; FASCIITIS; FEMALE; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEMOGLOBIN BLOOD LEVEL; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INFANT; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; NONNECROTIZING INFECTIOUS FASCIITIS; NUCLEAR MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; PRESCHOOL CHILD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROTEIN BLOOD LEVEL; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SODIUM BLOOD LEVEL;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; CELLULITIS; CONTRAST MEDIA; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FASCIITIS; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; GADOLINIUM DTPA; HUMANS; IMAGE INTERPRETATION, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS;

EID: 79956327713     PISSN: 00338419     EISSN: 15271315     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1148/radiol.11101164     Document Type: Article

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