Metastatic Gas gangrene and Colonic Perforation: a case report

Clostridium septicum myonecrosis is associated with diabetes, colorectal and haematological malignancies. We present a case of metastatic myonecrosis in a diabetic patient with a perforated caecal tumour. The literature since 1989 is reviewed and 28 cases of Clostridium septicum myonecrosis are disc...

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Autores principales: Powell, Matthew J, Sasapu, Kishore K, Macklin, Christopher
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/PMC2311281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18373865
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-3-15
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author Powell, Matthew J
Sasapu, Kishore K
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description Clostridium septicum myonecrosis is associated with diabetes, colorectal and haematological malignancies. We present a case of metastatic myonecrosis in a diabetic patient with a perforated caecal tumour. The literature since 1989 is reviewed and 28 cases of Clostridium septicum myonecrosis are discussed.
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spelling pubmed-23112812008-04-16 Metastatic Gas gangrene and Colonic Perforation: a case report Powell, Matthew J Sasapu, Kishore K Macklin, Christopher World J Emerg Surg Case Report Clostridium septicum myonecrosis is associated with diabetes, colorectal and haematological malignancies. We present a case of metastatic myonecrosis in a diabetic patient with a perforated caecal tumour. The literature since 1989 is reviewed and 28 cases of Clostridium septicum myonecrosis are discussed. BioMed Central 2008-03-28 /pmc/articles/PMC2311281/ /pubmed/18373865 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-3-15 Text en Copyright © 2008 Powell 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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Powell, Matthew J
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Metastatic Gas gangrene and Colonic Perforation: a case report
title Metastatic Gas gangrene and Colonic Perforation: a case report
title_full Metastatic Gas gangrene and Colonic Perforation: a case report
title_fullStr Metastatic Gas gangrene and Colonic Perforation: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Metastatic Gas gangrene and Colonic Perforation: a case report
title_short Metastatic Gas gangrene and Colonic Perforation: a case report
title_sort metastatic gas gangrene and colonic perforation: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2311281/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18373865
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1749-7922-3-15
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