Analysis of prognostic factors affecting mortality in Fournier's gangrene: A study of 72 cases

Canadian Urological Association Journal

Volumn 9, Issue 11-12, 2015, Pages E800-E804

  Tarchouli, Mohamed ^a   Bounaim, Ahmed ^a   Essarghini, Mohamed ^a   Ratbi, Moulay Brahim ^a   Belhamidi, Mohamed Said ^a   Bensal, Abdelhak ^a   Zemmouri, Adil ^a   Ali, Abdelmounaim Ait ^a   Sair, Khalid ^a  

^a MOHAMMED V UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; CREATININE; HEMOGLOBIN; HYPERTENSIVE AGENT; POTASSIUM; UREA;

ADULT; AGE; AGED; ANTIBIOTIC THERAPY; ARTICLE; ARTIFICIAL VENTILATION; CLINICAL ASSESSMENT TOOL; COLOSTOMY; CONTROLLED STUDY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CREATININE BLOOD LEVEL; DEBRIDEMENT; DIABETES MELLITUS; DISEASE DURATION; DISEASE PREDISPOSITION; FEMALE; FOURNIER GANGRENE; FOURNIER GANGRENE SEVERITY INDEX; GENDER; HEART DISEASE; HEMATOCRIT; HOSPITALIZATION; HUMAN; HYPERBARIC OXYGEN; LENGTH OF STAY; MAJOR CLINICAL STUDY; MALE; MORTALITY; POTASSIUM BLOOD LEVEL; PROGNOSIS; RETROSPECTIVE STUDY; SEPSIS; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; STATISTICAL SIGNIFICANCE; SURVIVOR; UREA BLOOD LEVEL;

EID: 84946553844     PISSN: 19116470     EISSN: 19201214     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5489/cuaj.3192     Document Type: Article

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