Case records of the Massachusetts General Hospital. Case 2-2011. A 30-year-old woman with shock after treatment of a furuncle

N Engl J Med. 2011 Jan 20;364(3):266-75. doi: 10.1056/NEJMcpc1003886.
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Publication types

  • Case Reports
  • Clinical Conference

MeSH terms

  • Adult
  • Brain / diagnostic imaging
  • Chest Pain / etiology
  • Community-Acquired Infections / diagnosis
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Female
  • Furunculosis / microbiology
  • Furunculosis / therapy
  • Humans
  • Methicillin-Resistant Staphylococcus aureus / isolation & purification*
  • Radiography, Thoracic
  • Sepsis / complications
  • Sepsis / diagnosis*
  • Sepsis / microbiology
  • Shock / etiology
  • Staphylococcal Infections / complications
  • Staphylococcal Infections / diagnosis*
  • Staphylococcal Infections / microbiology