Simultaneous necrotizing soft tissue infection and colonic necrosis caused by clostridium septicum

Surgical Infections

Volumn 12, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 501-506

  Gnerlich, Jennifer L ^a   Ritter, Jon H ^a   Kirby, John P ^a   Mazuski, John E ^a  

^a WASHINGTON UNIVERSITY SCHOOL OF MEDICINE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFEPIME; CLINDAMYCIN; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; MEROPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; NORADRENALIN; SODIUM CHLORIDE; VANCOMYCIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ACQUIRED IMMUNE DEFICIENCY SYNDROME; ADULT; ARM AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; BLISTER; BLOOD CLOTTING DISORDER; BLOOD CULTURE; BLOOD GAS ANALYSIS; BLOOD PRESSURE VARIABILITY; BREATHING RATE; BURNING SENSATION; CASE REPORT; CELLULITIS; CLOSTRIDIUM DIFFICILE INFECTION; CLOSTRIDIUM SEPTICUM; COLON RESECTION; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; CONTINUOUS HEMODIALYSIS; DEATH; DIAPHORESIS; DIARRHEA; DISTRESS SYNDROME; EDEMA; EMERGENCY WARD; ERYTHEMA; FEVER; GAS GANGRENE; GASTROESOPHAGEAL REFLUX; GLUCOSE BLOOD LEVEL; HEART INFARCTION; HEART RATE VARIABILITY; HEMICOLECTOMY; HEMODYNAMIC MONITORING; HEMOSTASIS; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; HYPERTENSION; HYPOTENSION; ILEOSTOMY; ILEUS; INTENSIVE CARE UNIT; INTERNATIONAL NORMALIZED RATIO; INTESTINE NECROSIS; KIDNEY FAILURE; LAPAROTOMY; LARGE INTESTINE PERFORATION; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; METABOLIC ACIDOSIS; MICROSCOPY; OPERATING ROOM; POSTOPERATIVE PAIN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECURRENT DISEASE; RECURRENT INFECTION; RESPIRATORY FAILURE; STOMACH TUBE; TACHYCARDIA; TACHYPNEA; TRANSURETHRAL RESECTION; TREATMENT REFUSAL;

ADULT; AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; AMPUTATION; CLOSTRIDIUM INFECTIONS; CLOSTRIDIUM SEPTICUM; COLECTOMY; COLON; ENTEROCOLITIS, PSEUDOMEMBRANOUS; HUMANS; MALE; MUSCLE, SKELETAL; NECROSIS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS;

EID: 84555196255     PISSN: 10962964     EISSN: 15578674     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1089/sur.2010.054     Document Type: Article

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