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Localised necrosis of scrotum (Fournier's gangrene) in a spinal cord injury patient – a case report

BACKGROUND: Men with spinal cord injury (SCI) appear to have a greater incidence of bacterial colonisation of genital skin as compared to neurologically normal controls. We report a male patient with paraplegia who developed rapidly progressive infection of scrotal skin, which resulted in localised...

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Autores principales:	Vaidyanathan, Subramanian, Soni, Bakul M, Hughes, Peter L, Mansour, Paul, Singh, Gurpreet, Darroch, James, Oo, Tun
Formato:	Texto
Lenguaje:	English
Publicado:	BioMed Central 2002
Materias:	Case Report
Acceso en línea:	https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC138815/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/12466026 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2296-3-20

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