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Chapter 35 - Hand Infections: Fight Bite, Purulent Tenosynovitis, Felon, and Paronychia

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  23 July 2018

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Michael Kohn
Edited by
Rachel L. Chin ,
Bradley W. Frazee  and
Zlatan Coralic
Rachel L. Chin
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Bradley W. Frazee
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco School of Medicine
Zlatan Coralic
Affiliation:
University of California, San Francisco
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Emergency Management of Infectious Diseases , pp. 233 - 238
Publisher: Cambridge University Press
Print publication year: 2018

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Clark, D. C. Common acute hand infections. Am. Fam. Physician 2003; 68(11): 2167–76.Google ScholarPubMed
Franko, O. I. and Abrams, R. A. Hand infections. Orthop. Clin. North Am. 2013; 44(4): 625–34.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Giladi, A. M., Malay, S., and Chung, K. C. A systematic review of the management of acute pyogenic flexor tenosynovitis. J. Hand Surg. Eur. 2015; 40(7): 720–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Handley, N. and Unger, A. Antibiotic overuse and paronychia: a teachable moment. JAMA Intern. Med. 2016; 176(1): 19–20.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Pierrart, J., Delgrande, D., Mamane, W., et al. Acute felon and paronychia: antibiotics not necessary after surgical treatment. Prospective study of 46 patients. Hand Surg. Rehabil. 2016; 35(1): 40–3.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Shoji, K., Cavanaugh, Z., and Rodner, C. M. Acute fight bite. J. Hand Surg. Am. 2013; 38(8): 1612–14.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

Additional Readings

Clark, D. C. Common acute hand infections. Am. Fam. Physician 2003; 68(11): 2167–76.Google ScholarPubMed
Franko, O. I. and Abrams, R. A. Hand infections. Orthop. Clin. North Am. 2013; 44(4): 625–34.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Giladi, A. M., Malay, S., and Chung, K. C. A systematic review of the management of acute pyogenic flexor tenosynovitis. J. Hand Surg. Eur. 2015; 40(7): 720–8.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Handley, N. and Unger, A. Antibiotic overuse and paronychia: a teachable moment. JAMA Intern. Med. 2016; 176(1): 19–20.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed
Pierrart, J., Delgrande, D., Mamane, W., et al. Acute felon and paronychia: antibiotics not necessary after surgical treatment. Prospective study of 46 patients. Hand Surg. Rehabil. 2016; 35(1): 40–3.CrossRefGoogle Scholar
Shoji, K., Cavanaugh, Z., and Rodner, C. M. Acute fight bite. J. Hand Surg. Am. 2013; 38(8): 1612–14.CrossRefGoogle ScholarPubMed

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