Experience of 80 cases with Fournier's gangrene and "trauma" as a trigger factor in the etiopathogenesis;Fournier gangreninde 80 hastali{dotless}k tecrübemiz ve bir etiyopatogenez nedeni olarak "travma"

Ulusal Travma ve Acil Cerrahi Dergisi

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 265-274

  Eskitaşcioǧlu, Teoman ^a   Özyazgan, Irfan ^a   Coruh, Atilla ^a   Günay, Galip K ^a   Altiparmak, Mehmet ^a   Yontar, Yalcin ^a   Doǧan, Fatih ^a  

^a Department of Plastic Reconstructive and Aesthetic Surgery ^*  (Turkey)

Author keywords

Fournier's gangrene; Reconstruction; Trauma

Indexed keywords

AMIKACIN; AZTREONAM; CEFIXIME; CEFOPERAZONE PLUS SULBACTAM; CEFTAZIDIME; CEFTRIAXONE; CEPHALOSPORIN; CIPROFLOXACIN; CLINDAMYCIN; COLISTIN; ERTAPENEM; GENTAMICIN; IMIPENEM; METRONIDAZOLE; NETILMICIN; ORNIDAZOLE; PIPERACILLIN PLUS TAZOBACTAM; SULTAMICILLIN; TEICOPLANIN;

ABSCESS; ADOLESCENT; ADULT; AGED; ANATOMIC LANDMARK; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL INFECTION; BACTERIUM IDENTIFICATION; CHILD; CLINICAL FEATURE; COLORECTAL DISEASE; COLOSTOMY; CONSTIPATION; CYSTOSTOMY; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; ECHOGRAPHY; EPIDIDYMIS; ESCHERICHIA COLI; FECES INCONTINENCE; FEMALE; FEVER; FOURNIER GANGRENE; GRAM NEGATIVE BACTERIUM; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HEMATOMA; HOSPITAL ADMISSION; HUMAN; INJURY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; MORTALITY; MULTIPLE ORGAN FAILURE; ORCHIECTOMY; PLASTIC SURGERY; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SCHOOL CHILD; SCROTUM; SEPSIS; SUBCUTANEOUS EMPHYSEMA; SURGICAL INJURY; SWELLING; TESTIS; URINARY TRACT DISEASE; URINE EXTRAVASATION; UROGENITAL TRACT DISEASE; VASCULARIZATION; VERY ELDERLY; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM; PATHOLOGY; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

ADULT; AGED; AGED, 80 AND OVER; FEMALE; FOURNIER GANGRENE; GENITALIA, MALE; HUMANS; MALE; MIDDLE AGED; RECONSTRUCTIVE SURGICAL PROCEDURES; RETROSPECTIVE STUDIES; TURKEY; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84906738250     PISSN: 1306696X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5505/tjtes.2014.67670     Document Type: Article

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