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Necrotizing fasciitis: An aid to prompt diagnosis

Author(s) -

Abu Bakar Hafeez Bhatti,

James McDiarmid

Publication year - 2006

Publication title -

aesthetic surgery journal

Language(s) - English

Resource type - Journals

SCImago Journal Rank - 1.528

H-Index - 58

eISSN - 1527-330X

pISSN - 1090-820X

DOI - 10.1016/j.asj.2005.11.005

Subject(s) - fasciitis , medicine , erysipelas , cellulitis , gangrene , scrotum , gas gangrene , fournier gangrene , dermatology , perineum , surgery , necrotising fasciitis

To the Editor:The Confederate Army surgeon Joseph Jones first described necrotizing fasciitis in 1871.1 Other names used for this condition have included necrotizing erysipelas, hemolytic streptococcal gangrene, nonclostridial crepitant cellulitis, nonclostridial gas gangrene, synergistic necrotizing cellulitis, bacterial synergistic gangrene, necrotizing cellulitis, and gangrenous erysipelas. When it involves the perineum and scrotum, it is referred to as Fournier's gangrene, first described by Alfred Jean Fournier in 1843.2The US Centers for Disease Control and Prevention (CDC) estimates that 10,000 to 15,000 cases of invasive Group …

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