Symmetrical Peripheral Gangrene complicating Staphylococcal Toxic Shock Syndrome
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Incipient symmetrical peripheral gangrene complicating pneumonia.
Abrahams (1948) reported a case of incipient symmetrical peripheral gangrene complicating paroxysmal tachycardia. Swan and Henderson (1951) reported two cases of the same condition in myocardial infarction. It may therefore be' worth while giving an account of another case of symmetrical peripheral gangrene, apparently provoked by pneumonia. The analytical studies of the gases of the arterial b...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Journal Armed Forces India
سال: 2008
ISSN: 0377-1237
DOI: 10.1016/s0377-1237(08)80076-7