Infections of the Hand

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- See:
      - Work Up and Treatment:

      - Bacteriology of Hand infections:
      - Bite Wounds
      - Clenched Fist Injury:
      - Collar Button Abscess:
      - Felon
      - High Pressure Injection Injuries:
      - Infectious Flexor Tenosynovitis:
      - Lumbrical Muscle Sheaths
      - Mid palmar space
      - Kanavel's signs
      - Paron's Space
      - Paronychia:
      - Thenar Space
      - Thumb Flexor Sheath Infections
      - Volar Finger Tip Infections:

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Use of antibiotics in the initial management of soft tissue hand wounds.

Prophylactic antibiotics in simple hand lacerations.

Hand infections: an audit of 160 infections treated in an accident and emergency department.

Year Book: Established Hand Infections: Controlled, Prospective Study.

Efficacy of perioperative cefamandole with postoperative cephalexin in the primary outpatient treatment of open wounds of the hand.

Bacterial colonization of mutilating hand injuries and its treatment.

Hand infections in patients with diabetes mellitus.

Sporotrichosis.

Closed tendon sheath irrigation for pyogenic flexor tenosynovitis.

High-pressure injection injuries of the hand: review of 25 patients managed by open wound technique.

Infections in open fractures of the hand.

Role of antibiotics in open fractures of the finger.

Management of early human bites of the hand: a prospective randomized study.

Surgical findings in clenched-fist injuries.

Abscesses secondary to parental abuse of drugs.   A study of demographic and bacteriologic characteristics.
      SB Schnall et al.   JBJS Vol 76-A. 1994. p 1526-1530.

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