Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections: A Guide to Early Diagnosis and Initial Therapy
- 1 September 2003
- journal article
- review article
- Published by Southern Medical Association in Southern Medical Journal
- Vol. 96 (9) , 900-905
- https://doi.org/10.1097/01.smj.0000066658.35160.a1
Abstract
Necrotizing skin and soft tissue infections are caused by many different bacteria, are frequently polymicrobial, and may have a deceptively innocent early clinical presentation. Clostridial and nonclostridial necrotizing infections are frequently similar in their early presentation. The initial presentation of these infections can be insidious, which results in delay in diagnosis and the start of...Keywords
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