A multi-disciplinary approach to the management of fungal osteomyelitis: Current concepts in post-traumatic lower extremity reconstruction: A case report

Microsurgery

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 144-147

  Cetrulo Jr , Curtis L ^a   Barone, Angelo A Leto ^a   Jordan, Kathleen ^a   Chang, David S ^a   Louie, Kevin ^a   Buntic, Rudolf F ^a   Brooks, Darrell ^a  

^a MASSACHUSETTS GENERAL HOSPITAL   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CEFALEXIN; CEFAZOLIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; TERBINAFINE; VORICONAZOLE;

ADULT; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; CALCANEUS; CASE REPORT; COMPOUND FRACTURE; DEBRIDEMENT; DISTAL TIBIA FRACTURE; DISTRACTION OSTEOGENESIS; FIBULA FRACTURE; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; FUNGAL OSTEOMYELITIS; HUMAN; INFECTION CONTROL; LIMB SALVAGE; MALE; NONHUMAN; OPEN REDUCTION; OSTEOMYELITIS; OSTEOSYNTHESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSEUDALLESCHERIASIS; RECTUS ABDOMINIS MUSCLE; SCEDOSPORIUM; SCEDOSPORIUM INFLATUM; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; TIBIA; TREATMENT OUTCOME;

ACCIDENTAL FALLS; ANTIFUNGAL AGENTS; COMBINED MODALITY THERAPY; DEBRIDEMENT; FIBULA; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FRACTURE FIXATION, INTERNAL; FRACTURES, OPEN; HUMANS; LEG INJURIES; LIMB SALVAGE; MAGNETIC RESONANCE IMAGING; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MYCOSES; OSTEOGENESIS, DISTRACTION; OSTEOMYELITIS; POSTOPERATIVE COMPLICATIONS; RISK ASSESSMENT; SCEDOSPORIUM; SKIN TRANSPLANTATION; TIBIAL FRACTURES; TREATMENT OUTCOME; WOUND HEALING;

EID: 84856367574     PISSN: 07381085     EISSN: 10982752     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/micr.20956     Document Type: Article

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