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- 2019
Chance to cut: defining a negative exploration rate in patients with suspected necrotizing soft tissue infectionDOI: 10.1136/tsaco-2018-000264 Keywords: necrotizing soft tissue infections, necrotizing fasciitis, diagnosis, debridement, negative exploration Abstract: Necrotizing soft tissue infections (NSTI) are aggressive infections associated with significant morbidity and mortality. Despite multiple predictive models for the identification of NSTI, a subset of patients will not have an NSTI at the time of surgical exploration. We hypothesized there is a subset of patients without NSTI who are clinically indistinguishable from those with NSTI. We aimed to characterize the differences between NSTI and non-NSTI patients and describe a negative exploration rate for this disease process
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