Management of chronic osteomyelitis of the tibia with life-threatening complications under negative pressure wound therapy and isolation of Helcococcus kunzii

International Wound Journal

Volumn 12, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 443-446

  Stanger, Katrin M ^a   Albert, Frauke ^a   Kneser, Ulrich ^b   Bogdan, Christian ^a   Horch, Raymund E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY HOSPITAL ERLANGEN   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HEIDELBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Free flap; Helcococcus kunzii; Marjolin ulcer; Negative pressure wound therapy; Wound infection

Indexed keywords

AMOXICILLIN PLUS CLAVULANIC ACID; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; CEFUROXIME; METRONIDAZOLE; VANCOMYCIN;

AGED; ANTIBIOTIC SENSITIVITY; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTERY PERFORATION; ARTICLE; BACTERIAL COLONIZATION; BACTERIUM ISOLATION; BLEEDING; CASE REPORT; CHRONIC OSTEOMYELITIS; DEBRIDEMENT; ENTEROCOCCUS FAECALIS; FOLLOW UP; GRAM POSITIVE BACTERIUM; HELCOCOCCUS KUNZII; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LEG SWELLING; LEG ULCER; LEG VARICOSIS; LEUKOCYTE COUNT; MALE; MYOCUTANEOUS FLAP; NONHUMAN; OPEN FRACTURE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS; TIBIA FRACTURE; TIBIAL ARTERY; TISSUE NECROSIS; VACUUM ASSISTED CLOSURE; VERY ELDERLY; WOUND DRESSING; WOUND INFECTION; ADVERSE EFFECTS; CHRONIC DISEASE; COMPLICATION; FREE TISSUE GRAFT; GRAM POSITIVE INFECTION; INJURIES; MICROBIOLOGY; NECROSIS; OSTEOMYELITIS; TIBIA; TRANSPLANTATION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

AGED, 80 AND OVER; CHRONIC DISEASE; FREE TISSUE FLAPS; GRAM-POSITIVE BACTERIAL INFECTIONS; HUMANS; LEG ULCER; MALE; NECROSIS; NEGATIVE-PRESSURE WOUND THERAPY; OSTEOMYELITIS; TIBIA; WOUND INFECTION; WOUNDS AND INJURIES;

EID: 84942549787     PISSN: 17424801     EISSN: 1742481X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/iwj.12133     Document Type: Article

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