Perforated diverticulitis presenting as necrotising fasciitis of the leg

Diverticulosis of the colon is a common condition of increasing age. Complications of diverticulitis including stricture, perforation and fistula formation often require surgery. Perforated diverticulitis may rarely present with spreading superficial sepsis. We describe for the first time, to our kn...

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Autores principales: Underwood, Timothy J, Southgate, Jeremy, Talbot, Robert, Nash, Guy F
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2267165/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18304351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-3-10
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author Underwood, Timothy J
Southgate, Jeremy
Talbot, Robert
Nash, Guy F
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description Diverticulosis of the colon is a common condition of increasing age. Complications of diverticulitis including stricture, perforation and fistula formation often require surgery. Perforated diverticulitis may rarely present with spreading superficial sepsis. We describe for the first time, to our knowledge, a case of retroperitoneal diverticula perforation presenting as necrotising fasciitis of the leg necessitating hind-quarter amputation.
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spelling pubmed-22671652008-03-13 Perforated diverticulitis presenting as necrotising fasciitis of the leg Underwood, Timothy J Southgate, Jeremy Talbot, Robert Nash, Guy F World J Emerg Surg Case Report Diverticulosis of the colon is a common condition of increasing age. Complications of diverticulitis including stricture, perforation and fistula formation often require surgery. Perforated diverticulitis may rarely present with spreading superficial sepsis. We describe for the first time, to our knowledge, a case of retroperitoneal diverticula perforation presenting as necrotising fasciitis of the leg necessitating hind-quarter amputation. BioMed Central 2008-02-27 /pmc/articles/PMC2267165/ /pubmed/18304351 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-3-10 Text en Copyright © 2008 Underwood 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.
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Underwood, Timothy J
Southgate, Jeremy
Talbot, Robert
Nash, Guy F
Perforated diverticulitis presenting as necrotising fasciitis of the leg
title Perforated diverticulitis presenting as necrotising fasciitis of the leg
title_full Perforated diverticulitis presenting as necrotising fasciitis of the leg
title_fullStr Perforated diverticulitis presenting as necrotising fasciitis of the leg
title_full_unstemmed Perforated diverticulitis presenting as necrotising fasciitis of the leg
title_short Perforated diverticulitis presenting as necrotising fasciitis of the leg
title_sort perforated diverticulitis presenting as necrotising fasciitis of the leg
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2267165/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18304351
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-3-10
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