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Necrotizing Fasciitis of the Paraspinous Muscles
Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) is a rare and lethal soft tissue infection that requires urgent surgical intervention. It is most often found in the extremities occurring with precipitating trauma or in immunocompromised states. Signs and symptoms are often vague or missing making early diagnosis very di...
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Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2850857/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20411079 |
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author | Law, Denise Dhingra, Kapil R. |
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description | Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) is a rare and lethal soft tissue infection that requires urgent surgical intervention. It is most often found in the extremities occurring with precipitating trauma or in immunocompromised states. Signs and symptoms are often vague or missing making early diagnosis very difficult. Our patient presented with flank pain and altered mental status but no known precipitating factors. Computed Tomography showed gas within and around the right paraspinous muscle suspicious for NF. Given NF’s high lethality, early suspicion by emergency physicians of NF in patients with soft tissue infections or with systemic findings of unknown etiology is necessary. |
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spelling | pubmed-28508572010-04-21 Necrotizing Fasciitis of the Paraspinous Muscles Law, Denise Dhingra, Kapil R. West J Emerg Med Infectious Diseases Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) is a rare and lethal soft tissue infection that requires urgent surgical intervention. It is most often found in the extremities occurring with precipitating trauma or in immunocompromised states. Signs and symptoms are often vague or missing making early diagnosis very difficult. Our patient presented with flank pain and altered mental status but no known precipitating factors. Computed Tomography showed gas within and around the right paraspinous muscle suspicious for NF. Given NF’s high lethality, early suspicion by emergency physicians of NF in patients with soft tissue infections or with systemic findings of unknown etiology is necessary. Department of Emergency Medicine, University of California, Irvine School of Medicine 2010-02 /pmc/articles/PMC2850857/ /pubmed/20411079 Text en Copyright © 2010 the authors. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0 This is an open access article distributed in accordance with the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution (CC BY 4.0) License. See: http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/. |
spellingShingle | Infectious Diseases Law, Denise Dhingra, Kapil R. Necrotizing Fasciitis of the Paraspinous Muscles |
title | Necrotizing Fasciitis of the Paraspinous Muscles |
title_full | Necrotizing Fasciitis of the Paraspinous Muscles |
title_fullStr | Necrotizing Fasciitis of the Paraspinous Muscles |
title_full_unstemmed | Necrotizing Fasciitis of the Paraspinous Muscles |
title_short | Necrotizing Fasciitis of the Paraspinous Muscles |
title_sort | necrotizing fasciitis of the paraspinous muscles |
topic | Infectious Diseases |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2850857/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20411079 |
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