Rapidly Progressive Fatal Gas Gangrene due to Clostridium Septicum in a Patient with Colon Cancer Revealed by Autopsy
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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: International Journal of Critical Care and Emergency Medicine
سال: 2017
ISSN: 2474-3674
DOI: 10.23937/2474-3674/1510030