A 51-year-old male with hepatitis C and a history of intravenous (IV) drug use presented to the emergency department, reporting one day of worsening scrotal pain and swelling. He denied diabetes, trauma, or infection with HIV. His genitourinary examination revealed a draining lesion in his left inguinal region with surrounding induration and cellulitis extending onto his perineum. His scrotum w...

Fournier gangrene is a rapidly progressive necrotizing infection of the perineal and genital fascia, often polymicrobial. Severity is increased in older patients, diabetics and the immunocompromised. As in this case, the disease can have an indolent onset. Early recognition and aggressive treatment is important.

INTRODUCTION Fournier gangrene is a rare necrotising fascitis of the perineum and genitals caused by a mixture of aerobic and anaerobic microorganisms. The first case was described by Baurienne in 1764 but the condition was named by Fournier in 1883 who reported the cases of five men with the condition with no apparent etiology. Infection most commonly arises from the skin, urethra, or rectal r...

BACKGROUND AND OBJECTIVES Fournier gangrene is a urological emergency associated with a high mortality. It is a necrotizing fasciitis caused by polymicrobial infection originating in the anorectal or genitourinary area. The aim of this study was to analyze the epidemiological and clinical characteristics of Fournier gangrene along with the variables that influence disease course and mortality i...

It is now almost a hundred years since Fournier, much against the standard belief of the times, proposed that syphilis was the likely cause of tabes dorsalis. Alfred Fournier (Fig. 1) was unquestionably the foremost syphilologist in France in the last 30 years of the 19th century, but his life and works are little known in English-speaking countries, probably because so few of his works have be...

Fournier’s gangrene (FG) is an acute, rapidly progressive and potentially fatal, infective necrotizing fasciitis affecting the external genitalia, perineal or perianal regions1. The definition of FG changed more often than the treatment over the years. Professor JeanAlfred Fournier (1832-1914), first defined FG as an ‘acute idiopathic gangrene of the scrotum in the young male2. The frequent iso...

1. Jensenius M, Fournier PE, Kelly P, Myrvang B, Raoult D. African tick bite fever. Lancet Infect Dis. 2003;3:557–64. 2. Raoult D, Fournier PE, Fenollar F, Jensenius M, Prioe T, de Pina JJ, et al. Rickettsia africae, a tick-borne pathogen in travelers to sub-Saharan Africa. N Engl J Med. 2001;344:1504–10. 3. Consigny PH, Rolain JM, Mizzi D, Raoult D. African tick-bite fever in French travelers....

Improving cloud information over deserts from SCIAMACHY O2 A-band N. Fournier, P. Stammes, M. de Graaf, R. van der A, A. Piters, R. Koelemeijer, and A. Kokhanovsky KNMI, Climate Research and Seismology Department, De Bilt, The Netherlands RIVM, National Institute of Public Health and the Environment, Bilthoven, The Netherlands Institute of Remote Sensing, University of Bremen, Germany Received:...

Author affiliations: Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique, Marseilles (R. Uch, P.-E. Fournier, C. Robert, C. Blanc-Tailleur, V. Galicher, R. Barre, F. Jordier, P. de Micco, D. Raoult, P. Biagini); Institut Hospitalo-Universitaire Méditerranée-Infection, Marseille, France (R. Uch, P.-E. Fournier, C. Robert, C. Blanc-Tailleur, R. Barre, F. Jordier, P. de Micco, D. Raoult, P. Biagini); Aix...