Skin and soft tissue infections.

Abstract

Skin and soft tissue infections are a common cause of hospitalization and use of antibiotic therapy, and may result in significant disability.

Infections managed by surgeons may vary from simple, noncomplicated cellulitis to severe necrotizing soft tissue infections.

The differentiation of necrotizing infections from nonnecrotizing infections is critical to achieving adequate surgical therapy.

An understanding of the changing epidemiology of all complicated skin and soft tissue infections is required for selection of appropriate empiric antibiotic therapy.

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Publication date

2009-03-13

Journal

The Surgical clinics of North America
Surg Clin North Am (0039-6109)

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Language

Eng.

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The Surgical clinics of North America

Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, TN 37212, USA. addison.may [at] vanderbilt.edu

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Surg Clin North Am. 2009 Apr;89(2):403-20, viii