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Hyperbaric oxygen therapy as adjuvant therapy for odontogenic necrotizing myositis: A case report |
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| Authors: | Andrea N. Cracchiolo Daniela Maria Palma Marco Palmeri Diego Tantillo Rosalia Lo Bue Andrea Braconi Claudio Caramanna Luigi Solazzo Fabio Genco Paola Mirto |
| Affiliation: | 1. UOC Emergenza Urgenza 118 Servizio di Medicina Iperbarica, ARNAS Ospedale Civico Di Cristina Benfratelli, Palermo Italy ; 2. UOS Terapia Intensiva e Trauma Center ARNAS Ospedale Civico Di Cristina Benfratelli, Palermo Italy ; 3. UOC Chirurgia Maxillo‐Faciale ARNAS Ospedale Civico Di Cristina Benfratelli, Palermo Italy ; 4. Basingstoke and North Hampshire Hospital, Hampshire UK |
| Abstract: | In a young man affected by skin soft tissue infections complicated with myositis, the use of hyperbaric oxygen treatment as an adjuvant therapy to surgical debridement and antibiotic therapy could improve management and prognosis. |
| Keywords: | adjuvant therapy hyperbaric oxygen therapy necrotizing myositis odontogenic infections soft tissue infections |