Necrotizing fasciitis: an alternative approach.

Cervicofacial Necrotizing Fasciitis in Patients with No Underlying Medical Conditions: A Review of Four Cases Seen in Twelve Months at a Nigerian Tertiary Hospital

Necrotizing fasciitis of the head and neck is a rare but rapidly progressive infection involving the skin, subcutaneous tissue, and fascia. We report 4 cases of cervicofacial necrotizing fasciitis with similar patterns of presentation. All the 4 cases presented with an odontogenic source and no underlying medical condition. All the patients had tooth extraction and serial wound debridement. Thr...

Unsuspected early necrotizing fasciitis identified by 18F-FDG PET imaging in a patient with acute myeloid leukemia

Necrotizing fasciitis is a part of a spectrum of necrotizing soft tissue infections that usually follow a surgical intervention or a chronic / acute medical illness. Diagnosis is often based on symptoms which classically start within hours after an injury. There are no reports on the use of PET/CT in this condition. Sparing reports of its association in patients with malignancy (Ca of colon and...

Life –threatening Necrotizing Fasciitis: a case report

Necrotizing fasciitis is characterized by a rapidly progressing necrosis of subcutaneous fat and fascia that rarely occurs in head and neck. It can be life threatening in the case of late diagnosis and antibiotic therapy and without surgical intervention. It is caused by group A streptococci or by a synergistic combination of aerobe and anaerobe microorganisms and bacterial synergy is an import...

نکروز منتشر پوست و زیر جلد در بیماری قند : معرفی یک مورد (Necrotizing Fasciitis)

The Perils of Complementary Alternative Medicine

More than 11,000 articles lauding alternative medicine appear in the PubMed database, but there are only a few articles describing the complications of such care. Two patients suffering from complications of alternative medicine were treated in our hospital: one patient developed necrotizing fasciitis after acupuncture, and the second developed an epidural hematoma after chiropractic manipulati...