Fournier's gangrene: Ultrasound or computed tomography?

Medical Ultrasonography

Volumn 16, Issue 4, 2014, Pages 389-390

  Gupta, Nishant ^a   Zinn, Kenneth M ^a   Bansal, Itisha ^b   Weinstein, Robert ^b  

^a Ultrasound Division Department of Radiology and Imaging   (United States)

^b ST VINCENT S MEDICAL CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADULT; CASE REPORT; COMPUTER ASSISTED TOMOGRAPHY; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; ECHOGRAPHY; FOURNIER GANGRENE; HUMAN; LETTER; MALE; MALE GENITAL SYSTEM SURGERY; MIDDLE AGED; SCROTAL PAIN; SCROTECTOMY; SURGICAL DRAINAGE; GENITAL SYSTEM DISEASE;

FOURNIER GANGRENE; GENITAL DISEASES, MALE; HUMANS; MALE;

EID: 84910122516     PISSN: 18444172     EISSN: 20668643     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Letter

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