Necrotizing fasciitis: 10 years' experience in a district general hospital
- 1 April 1991
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Oxford University Press (OUP) in British Journal of Surgery
- Vol. 78 (4), 488-489
- https://doi.org/10.1002/bjs.1800780431
Abstract
Of 14 patients with necrotizing fasciitis who presented between 1979 and 1988, six (43 per cent) died. The deaths were associated with delays in diagnosis, poor surgical technique and diabetes. Prompt diagnosis, resuscitation and early radical surgery are essential to the successful management of necrotizing fasciitis.Keywords
This publication has 10 references indexed in Scilit:
- Improved Results from a Standardized Approach in Treating Patients with Necrotizing FasciitisAnnals of Surgery, 1987
- Necrotising fasciitis of the orbitBritish Journal of Oral and Maxillofacial Surgery, 1987
- Streptococcal necrotising fasciitis: comparison between histological and clinical features.Journal of Clinical Pathology, 1987
- Early diagnosis, nutritional support, and immediate extensive debridement improve survival in necrotizing fasciitisThe American Journal of Surgery, 1983
- Necrotizing fasciitis of the upper extremityThe Journal of Hand Surgery, 1982
- Progressive Necrotizing Surgical Infections—A Unified ApproachJournal Of Trauma-Injury Infection and Critical Care, 1981
- Bacteriology of necrotizing fasciitisThe American Journal of Surgery, 1977
- Diagnosis, clinical course and treatment of acute dermal gangreneBritish Journal of Surgery, 1975
- Synergistic Necrotizing CellulitisAnnals of Surgery, 1972
- Necrotizing FasciitisAnnals of Surgery, 1970