Case Report: Fournier Gangrene Following Circumcision
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Neonatal scrotal wall necrotizing fasciitis (Fournier gangrene): a case report
INTRODUCTION Necrotizing fasciitis in neonates is rare and is associated with almost 50% mortality. Although more than 80 cases of neonates (under one month of age) with necrotizing fasciitis have been reported in the literature, only six of them are identified as originating in the scrotum. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a four-week-old, full-term, otherwise-healthy Caucasian baby b...
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Fournier’s gangrene (FG) is an acute, rapidly progressive and potentially fatal, infective necrotizing fasciitis affecting the external genitalia, perineal or perianal regions1. The definition of FG changed more often than the treatment over the years. Professor JeanAlfred Fournier (1832-1914), first defined FG as an ‘acute idiopathic gangrene of the scrotum in the young male2. The frequent iso...
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عنوان ژورنال: International Archives of Urology and Complications
سال: 2018
ISSN: 2469-5742
DOI: 10.23937/2469-5742/1510042