Perforated carcinoma of the caecum presenting as necrotising fasciitis of the abdominal wall, the key to early diagnosis and management

BACKGROUND: Necrotising Fasciitis is a life threatening soft tissue infection which requires aggressive, early surgical management. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a rare case of a retroperitoneal perforation of a carcinoma of the caecum presenting as a necrotising fasciitis of the anterior abdominal...

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Autores principales: Marron, Conor D, McArdle, Gerarde T, Rao, Milind, Sinclair, Stephen, Moorehead, John
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1615875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17010190
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-6-11
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author Marron, Conor D
McArdle, Gerarde T
Rao, Milind
Sinclair, Stephen
Moorehead, John
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description BACKGROUND: Necrotising Fasciitis is a life threatening soft tissue infection which requires aggressive, early surgical management. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a rare case of a retroperitoneal perforation of a carcinoma of the caecum presenting as a necrotising fasciitis of the anterior abdominal wall. CONCLUSION: This case highlights the importance of early aggressive debridement to healthy tissue limits, the consideration of a rare underlying cause, and the scope for plastic surgical reconstruction in order that aggressive initial surgery can be adequately performed.
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spelling pubmed-16158752006-10-18 Perforated carcinoma of the caecum presenting as necrotising fasciitis of the abdominal wall, the key to early diagnosis and management Marron, Conor D McArdle, Gerarde T Rao, Milind Sinclair, Stephen Moorehead, John BMC Surg Case Report BACKGROUND: Necrotising Fasciitis is a life threatening soft tissue infection which requires aggressive, early surgical management. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a rare case of a retroperitoneal perforation of a carcinoma of the caecum presenting as a necrotising fasciitis of the anterior abdominal wall. CONCLUSION: This case highlights the importance of early aggressive debridement to healthy tissue limits, the consideration of a rare underlying cause, and the scope for plastic surgical reconstruction in order that aggressive initial surgery can be adequately performed. BioMed Central 2006-09-29 /pmc/articles/PMC1615875/ /pubmed/17010190 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-6-11 Text en Copyright © 2006 Marron et al; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
spellingShingle Case Report
Marron, Conor D
McArdle, Gerarde T
Rao, Milind
Sinclair, Stephen
Moorehead, John
Perforated carcinoma of the caecum presenting as necrotising fasciitis of the abdominal wall, the key to early diagnosis and management
title Perforated carcinoma of the caecum presenting as necrotising fasciitis of the abdominal wall, the key to early diagnosis and management
title_full Perforated carcinoma of the caecum presenting as necrotising fasciitis of the abdominal wall, the key to early diagnosis and management
title_fullStr Perforated carcinoma of the caecum presenting as necrotising fasciitis of the abdominal wall, the key to early diagnosis and management
title_full_unstemmed Perforated carcinoma of the caecum presenting as necrotising fasciitis of the abdominal wall, the key to early diagnosis and management
title_short Perforated carcinoma of the caecum presenting as necrotising fasciitis of the abdominal wall, the key to early diagnosis and management
title_sort perforated carcinoma of the caecum presenting as necrotising fasciitis of the abdominal wall, the key to early diagnosis and management
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC1615875/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/17010190
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2482-6-11
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