Fournier's Gangrene: A Rare Complication of Sweet's Syndrome

Fournier gangrene: rare complication of rectal cancer

Fournier's Gangrene is a rare complication of rectal cancer. Its discovery is often delayed. It's incidence is about 0.3/100,000 populations in Western countries. We report a patient with peritoneal perforation of rectal cancer revealed by scrotal and perineal necrotizing fasciitis.

Fungal Fourniers Gangrene in an Immunocompromised Patient

Fournier's Gangrene is a rapidly progressive necrotizing fasciitis of the groin, perianal and perineal region that is often polymicrobial in nature, often averaging 3 species of bacteria per patient. The typical infection can be due to a host of microbes, including gram positive, gram negative and anaerobic species including. Many of the causative organisms are found in the normal microbial flo...

Dermal gangrene. A rare complication of warfarin therapy.

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Symmetrical peripheral gangrene: a rare but dreadful complication of sepsis.

Lemierre syndrome: a rare complication of pharyngotonsillitis.

emierre’s syndrome consists of a pharyngeal infection assoiated with septicemia and internal jugular thrombosis with eptic emboli. This condition was described in 1936 by ndre Lemierre.1,2 It was initially named as post-anginal epticemia, and then, ‘‘forgotten disease’’, by becoming rare condition after the advent of antibiotics, with fewer han 100 cases reported since 1974.2 Lamierre’s syndrom...