World Society of Emergency Surgery (WSES) guidelines for management of skin and soft tissue infections.

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Published in World J Emerg Surg on November 18, 2014

Authors

Massimo Sartelli1, Mark A Malangoni2, Addison K May3, Pierluigi Viale4, Lillian S Kao5, Fausto Catena6, Luca Ansaloni7, Ernest E Moore8, Fred A Moore9, Andrew B Peitzman10, Raul Coimbra11, Ari Leppaniemi12, Yoram Kluger13, Walter Biffl9, Kaoru Koike14, Massimo Girardis15, Carlos A Ordonez16, Mario Tavola17, Miguel Cainzos18, Salomone Di Saverio19, Gustavo P Fraga20, Igor Gerych21, Michael D Kelly22, Korhan Taviloglu23, Imtiaz Wani24, Sanjay Marwah25, Miklosh Bala26, Wagih Ghnnam27, Nissar Shaikh28, Osvaldo Chiara29, Mario Paulo Faro30, Gerson Alves Pereira31, Carlos Augusto Gomes32, Federico Coccolini7, Cristian Tranà1, Davide Corbella33, Pietro Brambillasca33, Yunfeng Cui34, Helmut A Segovia Lohse35, Vladimir Khokha36, Kenneth Yy Kok37, Suk-Kyung Hong38, Kuo-Ching Yuan39

Author Affiliations

1: Department of Surgery, Macerata Hospital, Via Santa Lucia 2, Macerata, 62019 Italy.
2: American Board of Surgery, Philadelphia, USA.
3: Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Vanderbilt University Medical Center, Nashville, Tennessee USA.
4: Clinic of Infectious Diseases, St Orsola-Malpighi University Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
5: Department of Surgery, The University of Texas Medical School, Houston, USA.
6: Emergency Surgery Department, Maggiore Parma Hospital, Parma, Italy.
7: General Surgery I, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, Italy.
8: Department of Surgery, Denver Health Medical Center, Denver, USA.
9: Department of Surgery, University of Florida, Gainesville, Florida USA.
10: Department of Surgery, University of Pittsburgh, Medical Center, Pittsburgh, USA.
11: Department of Surgery, UC San Diego Health System, San Diego, USA.
12: Department of Abdominal Surgery, University Hospital Meilahti, Helsinki, Finland.
13: Department of General Surgery, Rambam Health Care Campus, Haifa, Israel.
14: Department of Primary Care & Emergency Medicine, Kyoto University Graduate School of Medicine, Kyoto, Japan.
15: Intensive Care Unit, University of Modena, Modena, Italy.
16: Department of Surgery, Fundación Valle del Lilí, Universidad del Valle, Cali, Colombia.
17: Department of Anesthesia and ICU, Villa Scazzi Hospital, Genoa, Italy.
18: Department of Surgery, University of Santiago de Compostela, Santiago de Compostela, Spain.
19: Trauma Surgery Unit, Maggiore Hospital, Bologna, Italy.
20: Division of Trauma Surgery, Hospital de Clinicas, School of Medical Sciences, University of Campinas, Campinas, Brazil.
21: Department of Surgery 1, Lviv Regional Hospital, DanyloHalytskyLviv National Medical University, Lviv, Ukraine.
22: Griffith Base Hospital, Griffith, NSW Australia.
23: Department of General Surgery, Istanbul Doctor's Center, Istanbul, Turkey.
24: Department of Surgery, Sheri-Kashmir Institute of Medical Sciences, Srinagar, India.
25: Department of Surgery, Pt BDS Post-graduate Institute of Medical Sciences, Rohtak, India.
26: General Surgery and Trauma Unit, Hadassah Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel.
27: Department of Surgery Mansoura, Faculty of medicine, Mansoura University, Mansoura, Egypt.
28: Department of Anesthesia and ICU, Hamad Medical Corporation, Doha, Qatar.
29: Emergency Department, Niguarda Ca'Granda Hospital, Milan, Italy.
30: Department of General and Gastrointestinal Surgery, Trauma and Emergency Surgery Division, ABC Medical School, Santo André, SP Brazil.
31: Emergency Surgery and trauma Unit, Department of Surgery, Ribeirão, Preto Brazil.
32: Hospital Universitário Therezinha de Jesus, Faculdade de Ciências Médicas e da Saúde de Juiz de Fora (SUPREMA), Universidade Federal de Juiz de Fora (UFJF), Minas Gerais, Brasil.
33: Department of Anestesiology, Papa Giovanni XXIII Hospital, Bergamo, Italy.
34: Department of Surgery, Tianjin Nankai Hospital, Nankai Clinical School of Medicine, Tianjin Medical University, Tianjin, China.
35: II Cátedra de Clínica Quirúrgica, Hospital de Clínicas, Universidad Nacional de Asunción, San Lorenzo, Paraguay.
36: Department of Surgery, Mozyr City Hospital, Mozyr, Belarus.
37: Department of Surgery, Ripas Hospital, Bandar Seri Begawan, Brunei.
38: Division of Trauma and Surgical Critical Care, Department of Surgery, University of Ulsan, Seoul, Republic of Korea.
39: Department of Trauma and Emergency Surgery, Chang Gung Memorial Hospital, Taipei, Taiwan.

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