Cutaneous diphtheria complicated oncologic reconstruction surgery in osteosarcoma

Diphtheria is an uncommon bacterial infection of the upper respiratory tract. We described a surgical site infection in a young adolescent female on maintenance chemotherapy. Corynebacterium diphtheriae was recovered from the wound, and she was treated with antibiotics and antitoxin. Cutaneous dipht...

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Autores principales: Abdolkarimi, Babak, Amanati, Ali, Bahoush Mehdiabadi, Gholamreza
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8829671/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35154731
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5425
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author Abdolkarimi, Babak
Amanati, Ali
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description Diphtheria is an uncommon bacterial infection of the upper respiratory tract. We described a surgical site infection in a young adolescent female on maintenance chemotherapy. Corynebacterium diphtheriae was recovered from the wound, and she was treated with antibiotics and antitoxin. Cutaneous diphtheria should be considered in immunocompromised patients receiving chemotherapy.
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spelling pubmed-88296712022-02-11 Cutaneous diphtheria complicated oncologic reconstruction surgery in osteosarcoma Abdolkarimi, Babak Amanati, Ali Bahoush Mehdiabadi, Gholamreza Clin Case Rep Case Reports Diphtheria is an uncommon bacterial infection of the upper respiratory tract. We described a surgical site infection in a young adolescent female on maintenance chemotherapy. Corynebacterium diphtheriae was recovered from the wound, and she was treated with antibiotics and antitoxin. Cutaneous diphtheria should be considered in immunocompromised patients receiving chemotherapy. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2022-02-10 /pmc/articles/PMC8829671/ /pubmed/35154731 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5425 Text en © 2022 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/) License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited and is not used for commercial purposes.
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Cutaneous diphtheria complicated oncologic reconstruction surgery in osteosarcoma
title Cutaneous diphtheria complicated oncologic reconstruction surgery in osteosarcoma
title_full Cutaneous diphtheria complicated oncologic reconstruction surgery in osteosarcoma
title_fullStr Cutaneous diphtheria complicated oncologic reconstruction surgery in osteosarcoma
title_full_unstemmed Cutaneous diphtheria complicated oncologic reconstruction surgery in osteosarcoma
title_short Cutaneous diphtheria complicated oncologic reconstruction surgery in osteosarcoma
title_sort cutaneous diphtheria complicated oncologic reconstruction surgery in osteosarcoma
topic Case Reports
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC8829671/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/35154731
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.5425
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