Factors affecting mortality in Fournier's gangrene: Experience with fifty-two patients

Singapore Medical Journal

Volumn 53, Issue 8, 2012, Pages 537-540

  Ersoz, Feyzullah ^a   Sari, Serkan ^a   Arikan, Soykan ^a   Altiok, Melih ^b   Bektas, Hasan ^a   Adas, Gokhan ^b   Poyraz, Bekir ^a   Ozcan, Ozhan ^a  

^a ISTANBUL TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

^b OKMEYDANI TRAINING AND RESEARCH HOSPITAL   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fournier's gangrene; Mortality; Necrotising fasciitis; Renal failure

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CEFADAY; METRONIDAZOLE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM DETECTION; CHRONIC KIDNEY FAILURE; COLOSTOMY; COMORBIDITY; DEATH; DEBRIDEMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SPECIFIC SURVIVAL; FEMALE; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HEMORRHOIDECTOMY; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; HYPERTENSION; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; NON INSULIN DEPENDENT DIABETES MELLITUS; PERIANAL ABSCESS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN NECROSIS; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; WOUND DRESSING;

ADULT; AGED; ANTI-BACTERIAL AGENTS; COMORBIDITY; DEBRIDEMENT; FEMALE; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HUMANS; KIDNEY FAILURE, CHRONIC; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SURVIVAL RATE;

EID: 84870026783     PISSN: 00375675     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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