Srikanth Gadicherla, Kirti Manglani, Kalyana C Pentapati, Adarsh Kudva, Chithra Aramanadka, Rajaji Chandravel
OBJECTIVE: To evaluate the profile of patients operated for maxillofacial space infections and associated risk factors for the length of hospital stay. MATERIALS AND METHODS: We conducted a retrospective study among patients operated for maxillofacial infections at our center from 2010 to 2020. Information collected from the records were age, sex, type and number of spaces involved, clinical signs and symptoms (pain, swelling, toothache, sore throat, otalgia, hoarseness, headache, cough, neck swelling, rancid breath, sialorrhea, gingival swelling, muffled voice, trismus, fever, dysphagia, odynophagia, malaise, lymphadenopathy, dyspnoea, pus discharge), treatment modality, total leukocyte count, evidence of bacterial growth, comorbidities, complications if any and length of hospital stay...
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