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Skin and Soft Tissue Infections

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Skin and soft tissue infections (SSTIs) include many pathological conditions involving the skin and the underlying subcutaneous tissue, fascia, or muscle. They may range from simple superficial infections to severe necrotizing infections.

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  1. Department of Surgery, Macerata Hospital, Macerata, Italy

    Massimo Sartelli MD

  2. Department of Surgery, College of Medicine and Health Sciences, UAE University, Al-Ain, Abu Dhabi, UAE

    Fikri M. Abu-Zidan MD, FACS, FRCS, PhD, DAST

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  1. Emergency and Trauma Surgery Service, C.A. Pizzardi Maggiore Hospital AUSL Bologna, Bologna, Italy

    Salomone Di Saverio

  2. Emergency and Trauma Surgery, Maggiore Hospital of Parma, Parma, Italy

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  3. General, Emergency and Trauma Surgery Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, Italy

    Luca Ansaloni

  4. General, Emergency and Trauma Surgery Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, Italy

    Federico Coccolini

  5. Trauma, Emergency Medicine Harvard Medical School, Massachusetts General Hospital, Boston, Massachusetts, USA

    George Velmahos

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Sartelli, M., Abu-Zidan, F.M. (2017). Skin and Soft Tissue Infections. In: Di Saverio, S., Catena, F., Ansaloni, L., Coccolini, F., Velmahos, G. (eds) Acute Care Surgery Handbook. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-15341-4_9

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