Impact of surgical intervention timing on the case fatality rate for Fournier's gangrene: An analysis of 379 cases

BJU International

Volumn 110, Issue 11 C, 2012, Pages

  Sugihara, Toru ^a,b   Yasunaga, Hideo ^c   Horiguchi, Hiromasa ^c   Fujimura, Tetsuya ^b   Ohe, Kazuhiko ^d   Matsuda, Shinya ^e   Fushimi, Kiyohide ^f   Homma, Yukio ^b  

^a Shintoshi Hospital   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^c Departments of Health Management and Policy   (Japan)

^d UNIVERSITY OF TOKYO   (Japan)

^e UNIVERSITY OF OCCUPATIONAL AND ENVIRONMENTAL HEALTH   (Japan)

^f TOKYO MEDICAL AND DENTAL UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

Author keywords

Bacterial infections; Epidemiology; Fasciitis; Fournier's Gangrene; Mortality; Necrotizing

Indexed keywords

ADULT; AGE; AGED; AMBULANCE; ARTICLE; CHARLSON COMORBIDITY INDEX; CLINICAL EFFECTIVENESS; COLOSTOMY; COMORBIDITY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CYSTOSTOMY; DEBRIDEMENT; DISEASE ASSOCIATION; DISSEMINATED INTRAVASCULAR CLOTTING; EARLY INTERVENTION; FEMALE; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HUMAN; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; OPERATION DURATION; ORCHIECTOMY; PENIS AMPUTATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RISK REDUCTION; SEPSIS; SEX; SURGICAL MORTALITY; THERAPY DELAY; TREATMENT OUTCOME; COMPARATIVE STUDY; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE; GYNECOLOGIC DISEASE; JAPAN; METHODOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME;

DEBRIDEMENT; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; FEMALE; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; FOURNIER GANGRENE; GENITAL DISEASES, FEMALE; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; JAPAN; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SURVIVAL RATE; TIME FACTORS;

MLCS; MLOWN;

EID: 84873271089     PISSN: 14644096     EISSN: 1464410X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1464-410X.2012.11291.x     Document Type: Article

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