Successful treatment of severe odontogenic infections which caused septicemia.
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The advancement of chemotherapy with antimicrobial agents to which gram-positive cocii are highly sensitive has brought with it a markede decline in severe odontogenic infections. However, if the primary treatment is inadequate or a patient is immunocompromised, odontogenic infections easily develop into serious conditions. This is the report of two cases of odontogenic infections which caused airway obstruction, septicemia and disseminated intravascular coagulation (DIC). The patients survived.
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عنوان ژورنال:
- Kansenshogaku zasshi. The Journal of the Japanese Association for Infectious Diseases
دوره 68 1 شماره
صفحات -
تاریخ انتشار 1994