Predictors of mortality for necrotizing soft-tissue infections: A retrospective analysis of 64 cases

Langenbeck's Archives of Surgery

Volumn 399, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 333-341

  Krieg, Andreas ^a   Dizdar, Levent ^a   Verde, Pablo Emilio ^a   Knoefel, Wolfram Trudo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL DÜSSELDORF   (Germany)

Author keywords

Necrotizing soft tissue infections; NSTI; Skin necrosis; Surgical debridement

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT;

ADULT; AGED; ARTICLE; CLINICAL FEATURE; CONTROLLED STUDY; DEBRIDEMENT; DEMOGRAPHY; DISEASE SEVERITY; FEMALE; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; KIDNEY FAILURE; LABORATORY TEST; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MICROBIOLOGICAL PARAMETERS; MORTALITY; NECROTIZING SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SKIN NECROSIS; SOFT TISSUE INFECTION; SURVIVOR; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; MICROBIOLOGY; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; NECROTIZING FASCIITIS; PATHOLOGY; RISK FACTOR; SKIN; SURVIVAL RATE; VERY ELDERLY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FASCIITIS, NECROTIZING; FEMALE; HUMANS; HYPERBARIC OXYGENATION; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; NECROSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; RISK FACTORS; SKIN; SOFT TISSUE INFECTIONS; SURVIVAL RATE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84898913734     PISSN: 14352443     EISSN: 14352451     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s00423-014-1162-1     Document Type: Article

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