Symmetrical peripheral gangrene caused by septic shock

We report three cases of symmetrical peripheral gangrene (SPG) caused by septic shock. Most of sepsis survivors with SPG require amputation of the affected extremities. To preserve the length of the thumb and fingers, we performed surgical amputation and used flaps to cover the amputated peripheral...

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Autores principales: Shimbo, Keisuke, Yokota, Kazunori, Miyamoto, Junpei, Okuhara, Yukako, Ochi, Mitsuo
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Taylor & Francis 2015
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4793794/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27252971
http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/23320885.2015.1041529
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author Shimbo, Keisuke
Yokota, Kazunori
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Okuhara, Yukako
Ochi, Mitsuo
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description We report three cases of symmetrical peripheral gangrene (SPG) caused by septic shock. Most of sepsis survivors with SPG require amputation of the affected extremities. To preserve the length of the thumb and fingers, we performed surgical amputation and used flaps to cover the amputated peripheral extremities.
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spelling pubmed-47937942016-06-01 Symmetrical peripheral gangrene caused by septic shock Shimbo, Keisuke Yokota, Kazunori Miyamoto, Junpei Okuhara, Yukako Ochi, Mitsuo Case Reports Plast Surg Hand Surg Case Reports We report three cases of symmetrical peripheral gangrene (SPG) caused by septic shock. Most of sepsis survivors with SPG require amputation of the affected extremities. To preserve the length of the thumb and fingers, we performed surgical amputation and used flaps to cover the amputated peripheral extremities. Taylor & Francis 2015-04-28 /pmc/articles/PMC4793794/ /pubmed/27252971 http://dx.doi.org/10.3109/23320885.2015.1041529 Text en © The Author(s). Published by Informa Healthcare. 2015 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Published by Informa Healthcare. This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4793794/
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