Severe gas-forming necrotizing fasciitis of the right hip and thigh: Case presentation and review
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Necrotizing fasciitis(NF) is an extreme form of soft tissue infections. Historically, it has a terrible reputation and still can have an ominous clinical presentation in modern days. Until the twentieth Century, it was responsible for hundreds of thousands of severe infections, disfiguring mutilations, and horrible deaths.Thankfully the incidence of necrotizing fasciitis has dramatically gone way down, its prognosis however remains poor.
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