Necrotizing fasciitis: Eight-year experience and literature review

Brazilian Journal of Infectious Diseases

Volumn 18, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 137-143

  Wang, Jinn Ming ^a   Lim, Hwee Kheng ^a  

^a MACKAY MEMORIAL HOSPITAL   (Taiwan)

Author keywords

Antibiotics; Comorbidity; Debridement; Necrotizing fasciitis

Indexed keywords

ALBUMIN; ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ACUTE KIDNEY FAILURE; ADULT; AMPUTATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; CLINICAL FEATURE; COMORBIDITY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; ERYTHEMA; FEMALE; FEVER; HUMAN; LABORATORY DIAGNOSIS; LENGTH OF STAY; LEUKOCYTOSIS; LEUKOPENIA; LIVER CIRRHOSIS; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; OUTCOME ASSESSMENT; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; RISK FACTOR; SEX DIFFERENCE; SKIN PAIN; SKIN SWELLING; TAIWAN; THROMBOCYTOPENIA; AEROMONAS HYDROPHILA; AGE DISTRIBUTION; AGED; ALBUMIN BLOOD LEVEL; ANAEROBIC BACTERIUM; BACTERIUM ISOLATE; EARLY DIAGNOSIS; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; MEDICAL RECORD REVIEW; MICROBIOLOGICAL EXAMINATION; MORTALITY; PAIN; SURVIVAL RATE; SWELLING; VIBRIO VULNIFICUS;

ANTIBIOTICS; COMORBIDITY; DEBRIDEMENT; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS;

ADULT; AGED; AMPUTATION; DEBRIDEMENT; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; TAIWAN;

EID: 84897661838     PISSN: 14138670     EISSN: 16784391     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.bjid.2013.08.003     Document Type: Article

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