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“More than skin deep”: Recurrent primary hand abscesses in a warehouse operative
A 25-year-old male right-hand dominant warehouse operator presented with two hand infections within 12 weeks both requiring surgical drainage and antimicrobial therapy. Subsequent testing confirmed Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive Staphylococcus aureus (PVL-SA). This case highlights the need for...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4793786/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27252979 http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/23320885.2015.1120641 |
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author | Kearney, L. O’Connor, C. Fitzpatrick, F. O’Sullivan, J. B. |
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description | A 25-year-old male right-hand dominant warehouse operator presented with two hand infections within 12 weeks both requiring surgical drainage and antimicrobial therapy. Subsequent testing confirmed Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive Staphylococcus aureus (PVL-SA). This case highlights the need for prompt multidisciplinary management of hand infections to consider, diagnose and manage atypical infections. |
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spelling | pubmed-47937862016-06-01 “More than skin deep”: Recurrent primary hand abscesses in a warehouse operative Kearney, L. O’Connor, C. Fitzpatrick, F. O’Sullivan, J. B. Case Reports Plast Surg Hand Surg Case Reports A 25-year-old male right-hand dominant warehouse operator presented with two hand infections within 12 weeks both requiring surgical drainage and antimicrobial therapy. Subsequent testing confirmed Panton-Valentine leukocidin-positive Staphylococcus aureus (PVL-SA). This case highlights the need for prompt multidisciplinary management of hand infections to consider, diagnose and manage atypical infections. Taylor & Francis 2015-12-10 /pmc/articles/PMC4793786/ /pubmed/27252979 http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/23320885.2015.1120641 Text en © 2015 The Author(s). Published by Taylor & Francis. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. |
spellingShingle | Case Reports Kearney, L. O’Connor, C. Fitzpatrick, F. O’Sullivan, J. B. “More than skin deep”: Recurrent primary hand abscesses in a warehouse operative |
title | “More than skin deep”: Recurrent primary hand abscesses in a warehouse operative |
title_full | “More than skin deep”: Recurrent primary hand abscesses in a warehouse operative |
title_fullStr | “More than skin deep”: Recurrent primary hand abscesses in a warehouse operative |
title_full_unstemmed | “More than skin deep”: Recurrent primary hand abscesses in a warehouse operative |
title_short | “More than skin deep”: Recurrent primary hand abscesses in a warehouse operative |
title_sort | “more than skin deep”: recurrent primary hand abscesses in a warehouse operative |
topic | Case Reports |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4793786/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27252979 http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/23320885.2015.1120641 |
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