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Validation of the laboratory risk indicator for necrotizing fasciitis (LRINEC) score for early diagnosis of necrotizing fasciitis

open access: yesTzu Chi Medical Journal, 2012
ObjectiveNecrotizing fasciitis is a surgical emergency. It has a poor outcome after late operative intervention but the clinical diagnosis is difficult.
Yi-Kung Lee, Yung-Cheng Su
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Necrotizing fasciitis

The American Journal of Surgery, 1981
Fourteen patients with necrotizing fasciitis seen over a 5 year period at a public hospital are reviewed. Middleaged men predominated. The disease followed such diverse initiating causes as self-injection with heroin, boil, ischiorectal abscess, perforated occult colonic cancer and trivial abrasions.
H P, Freeman   +3 more
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NECROTIZING FASCIITIS

The Journal of Dermatology, 1984
ABSTRACTAn interesting patient of necrotizing faciitis with cardinal clinical features is described.
V N, Sehgal, K, Singh
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Necrotizing fasciitis: Contribution and limitations of diagnostic imaging

open access: yesJoint Bone Spine, 2013
Necrotizing fasciitis is a rare, rapidly spreading, deep-seated infection causing thrombosis of the blood vessels located in the fascia. Necrotizing fasciitis is a surgical emergency.
Jacques Malghem   +2 more
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Necrotizing Fasciitis

Journal of the American Academy of Orthopaedic Surgeons, 2009
Necrotizing fasciitis is a rare but life-threatening soft-tissue infection characterized by rapidly spreading inflammation and subsequent necrosis of the fascial planes and surrounding tissue. Infection typically follows trauma, although the inciting insult may be as minor as a scrape or an insect bite.
Joseph M, Bellapianta   +3 more
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Necrotizing Fasciitis

Pediatric Emergency Care, 2011
Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) is a rare, rapidly progressive bacterial soft tissue infection with a high risk for morbidity and mortality. Although more common in adults, NF also affects the pediatric population. Many bacterial organisms can cause NF, but group A Streptococcus is the most common monomicrobial cause of disease.
Nazreen, Jamal, Stephen J, Teach
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Erysipelas and necrotizing fasciitis

British Journal of Dermatology, 1977
The clinical course of necrotizing fasciitis in 8 patients is compared with observations on 22 other patients with erysipelas. In necrotizing fasciitis the early erythematous areas turn into a dusky blue colour with later vesiculation and formation of bullae. An important finding is a non-pitting oedema extending outside the erythematous patches.
H, Hammar, L, Wanger
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Necrotizing fasciitis with chickenpox

The Indian Journal of Pediatrics, 2003
Necrotizing fasciitis can be observed in a wide variety of clinical settings in the pediatric age group. But necrotizing fasciitis as a complication of chickenpox is rare. Five cases of necrotizing fasciitis following chickenpox were treated in the authors' institutions.
, Vijaykumar   +4 more
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Necrotizing Fasciitis of the Extremities

The Journal of Trauma: Injury, Infection, and Critical Care, 1992
Necrotizing fasciitis is a limb- and life-threatening soft-tissue infection. Eighteen patients with necrotizing fasciitis of the extremities were reviewed. These infections occurred most commonly after minor trauma. Associated chronic debilitating diseases were present in 13 patients. All but two infections were polymicrobial.
K C, Wang, C H, Shih
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Necrotizing Fasciitis

Archives of Dermatology, 1978
Two patients had limited necrotizing fascilitis. The morbidity and mortality from this infectious necrotizing process of the superficial fascia have not changed significantly since its initial description in 1924. The characteristic clinical findings of necrotizing fascilitis makes early recognition possible.
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