Rapidly progressive and fatal distant spontaneous gas gangrene due to Clostridium septicum after biopsy of malignant cecal mass
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Spontaneous bifocal Clostridium septicum gas gangrene.
Clostridium septicum gas gangrene (myonecrosis) is an acutely painful and rapidly fatal infection occurring in the absence of trauma. Urgent surgery is essential both to control pain and to ensure survival. Most patients who develop this infection have an underlying malignancy and clinicians should be aware of this association. We present a case of bifocal myonecrosis which to our knowledge has...
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عنوان ژورنال: IDCases
سال: 2021
ISSN: 2214-2509
DOI: 10.1016/j.idcr.2021.e01129