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Pediatric Cervicofacial Necrotizing Fasciitis: A Case Report Highlighting the Diagnostic Challenges and Management in a Child Without Preceding Trauma or Infection. [PDF]

Clin Case Rep
ABSTRACT Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) is a rare but serious life‐threatening condition in children that can be easily overlooked due to its atypical presentation and absence of common risk factors. This case involves a 10‐year‐old girl with a history of non‐transfusion‐dependent thalassemia and epilepsy who developed cervicofacial NF without any prior ...
Mohsin AM, Anas Z, Khan Z, Fahad MAB.
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Time against tissue: case reports of fungal necrotizing fasciitis and the cost of delayed aggressive interventions [PDF]

BMC Infectious Diseases
Background Necrotizing fasciitis is a rare disease that causes the necrosis of subcutaneous tissues and muscle fascia in patients, and if not diagnosed and treated in due time may lead to the extreme morbidity and even death, with the mortality rate ...
Ali Haider, Safna Naozer Virji, Maryam Dildar, Ayesha Haq, Abdul Rehman Alvi   +4 more
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Necrotizing fasciitis due to mycobacterium tuberculosis: A case report

Heliyon, 2023
We admitted a patient with extensive and rapidly progressing necrotizing fasciitis, pulmonary tuberculosis, cutaneous tuberculosis, and bacterial infections because of late diagnosis and treatment.
Liying Chen, Yinhui Zhu, Du Fan
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Sonographic Crepitus, a Point-of-Care Ultrasound Finding

POCUS Journal, 2022
Necrotizing fasciitis is a life-threatening polymicrobial skin and soft tissue infection that requires prompt diagnosis and treatment. Delays in diagnosis and treatment can result in an increase in morbidity and mortality [1].
Brian Kohen, Michael Halperin, Gloria Felix, Trevor Dixon, Michelle Montenegro, Fenil Patel   +5 more
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Incidence and mortality of necrotizing fasciitis in The Netherlands: the impact of group A Streptococcus

BMC Infectious Diseases, 2021
Background Little is known about the exact incidence of necrotizing soft tissue infections. The few incidences reported in international literature are not directly relatable to the Netherlands, or other European countries, due to geographic ...
Femke Nawijn, Brechje de Gier, Diederik A. H. Brandwagt, Rolf H. H. Groenwold, Jort Keizer, Falco Hietbrink   +5 more
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Prospective Validation of the Laboratory Risk Indicator for Necrotizing Fasciitis (LRINEC) Score for Necrotizing Fasciitis of the Extremities.

PLoS ONE, 2020
ObjectivesThe Laboratory Risk Indicator for Necrotizing Fasciitis score was developed as a clinical decision tool for distinguishing necrotizing fasciitis from other soft tissue infections.
Cheng-Ting Hsiao, Chia-Peng Chang, Tsung-Yu Huang, Yi-Chuan Chen, Wen-Chih Fann   +4 more
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Clinical analysis of diagnosis and treatment of necrotizing fasciitis

European Journal of Inflammation, 2022
It is difficult to diagnose necrotizing fasciitis early. In addition, untimely or incorrect treatment worsens the disease, which may then develop into severe necrotizing fasciitis.
Xiaoping Yu, Zheng Guo, Miaomiao Zhang, Qianqian Fu, Junli Zhou   +4 more
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A fatal case of necrotizing fasciitis caused by Escherichia coli after road traffic accident [PDF]

Infectious Diseases and Tropical Medicine, 2022
OBJECTIVE: Necrotizing fasciitis is a life-threatening skin infection that causes necrosis of subcutaneous tissue and fascia causing high mortality. Monomicrobial necrotizing fasciitis (type II) usually is caused by group A streptococcus.
S. Puri, A. Grover, K. Ohri, P. Choudhry, S. Saurabh   +4 more
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Exhaustion of the immune system by Group A Streptococcus necrotizing fasciitis: the occurrence of late secondary infections in a retrospective study

Trauma Surgery & Acute Care Open, 2019
Background Necrotizing fasciitis is a potentially lethal condition for which early and adequate treatment with surgical debridement and broad-spectrum intravenous antibiotics are essential for survival. It is hypothesized that Group A Streptococcus (GAS)
Luke P H Leenen, Falco Hietbrink, Femke Nawijn, Emma C E Wassenaar, Diederik P J Smeeing, Bart J M Vlaminckx, Jan Siert K Reinders, Jan Wille   +7 more
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Intestinal Perforation by a Toothpick as Reason for Necrotizing Fasciitis [PDF]

Journal of Bone and Joint Infection, 2018
Necrotizing fasciitis is an uncommon but often fatal disease. Given the various causes of necrotizing fasciitis, we report a case of sigmoid colon perforation caused by a toothpick subsequently resulting in fulminant necrotizing fasciitis of the ...
M. Rupp, G. Knapp, D. Weisweiler, C. Heiss, V. Alt   +4 more
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