Myonecrosis secondary to Clostridium Septicum in a patient with Occult Colon Malignancy: a case report

BACKGROUND: Gas gangrene is a relatively rare event that is typically associated with history of trauma. A non-traumatic history of gas gangrene has been associated with Clostridium septicum and cecal malignancy. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of a 54-year-old male patient who presented with m...

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Autores principales: Gibson, Michael A, Avgerinos, Dimitrios V, Llaguna, Omar H, Sheth, Nitin D
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/PMC2588582/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18992141
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-300
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author Gibson, Michael A
Avgerinos, Dimitrios V
Llaguna, Omar H
Sheth, Nitin D
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Llaguna, Omar H
Sheth, Nitin D
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description BACKGROUND: Gas gangrene is a relatively rare event that is typically associated with history of trauma. A non-traumatic history of gas gangrene has been associated with Clostridium septicum and cecal malignancy. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of a 54-year-old male patient who presented with myonecrosis secondary to Clostridium septicum septicemia and an occult cecal carcinoma. CONCLUSION: C. septicum and its association with malignancy should be considered in any patient suffering from myonecrosis without a history of trauma.
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spelling pubmed-25885822008-11-28 Myonecrosis secondary to Clostridium Septicum in a patient with Occult Colon Malignancy: a case report Gibson, Michael A Avgerinos, Dimitrios V Llaguna, Omar H Sheth, Nitin D Cases J Case Report BACKGROUND: Gas gangrene is a relatively rare event that is typically associated with history of trauma. A non-traumatic history of gas gangrene has been associated with Clostridium septicum and cecal malignancy. CASE PRESENTATION: We present a case of a 54-year-old male patient who presented with myonecrosis secondary to Clostridium septicum septicemia and an occult cecal carcinoma. CONCLUSION: C. septicum and its association with malignancy should be considered in any patient suffering from myonecrosis without a history of trauma. BioMed Central 2008-11-07 /pmc/articles/PMC2588582/ /pubmed/18992141 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-300 Text en Copyright © 2008 Gibson 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
Gibson, Michael A
Avgerinos, Dimitrios V
Llaguna, Omar H
Sheth, Nitin D
Myonecrosis secondary to Clostridium Septicum in a patient with Occult Colon Malignancy: a case report
title Myonecrosis secondary to Clostridium Septicum in a patient with Occult Colon Malignancy: a case report
title_full Myonecrosis secondary to Clostridium Septicum in a patient with Occult Colon Malignancy: a case report
title_fullStr Myonecrosis secondary to Clostridium Septicum in a patient with Occult Colon Malignancy: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Myonecrosis secondary to Clostridium Septicum in a patient with Occult Colon Malignancy: a case report
title_short Myonecrosis secondary to Clostridium Septicum in a patient with Occult Colon Malignancy: a case report
title_sort myonecrosis secondary to clostridium septicum in a patient with occult colon malignancy: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2588582/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18992141
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1757-1626-1-300
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