Necrotizing Fasciitis: A Life-threatening Complication of Intraoperative Electromyography

Intraoperative neurophysiological monitoring is a commonly used practice during spine surgery. Complications of electromyography (EMG) needle electrode placement are very uncommon. We present a patient who was infected with necrotizing fasciitis in her left thigh due to an EMG needle electrode durin...

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Veröffentlicht in:Cureus
Hauptverfasser: Shoakazemi, Alireza, Moisi, Marc, Tubbs, R. Shane, Wingerson, Mary, Ajayi, Olaide, Zwillman, Michael E, Gottlieb, Jourdan, Hanscom, David
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Sprache:Inglês
Veröffentlicht: Cureus 2016
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Quality Improvement
Online Zugang:https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4771574/
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26973803
https://ncbi.nlm.nih.govhttp://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.468
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