Approach for drainage of descending necrotizing mediastinitis on the basis of the extending progression from deep neck infection to mediastinitis.
Department of Critical Care and Emergency Medicine, Yokohama City University, School of Medicine, Yokohama Citizen Medical Center Hospital, Yokohama, Japan.
Yoshihiro
Y
Moriwaki
Mitsugi
M
Sugiyama
Goro
G
Matsuda
Koichiro
K
Date
Norihisa
N
Karube
Keiji
K
Uchida
Toshiro
T
Yamamoto
Satoshi
S
Hasegawa
D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D000402:Airway Obstruction / Q000209:etiology; D018450:Disease Progression; D004322:Drainage / Q000379:methods*; D004487:Edema / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D016908:Gram-Positive Bacterial Infections / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008480:Mediastinitis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D008875:Middle Aged; D009333:Neck; D009336:Necrosis; D010146:Pain / Q000209:etiology; D017703:Retropharyngeal Abscess / Q000150:complications*; D018805:Sepsis / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy*; D012720:Severity of Illness Index; D013492:Suppuration; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed / Q000379:methods*