Life-Threatening Clostridial Sepsis in a Postmenopausal Patient with Degenerating Uterine Leiomyoma

Clostridium perfringens is a fulminant infection that affects patients with a high rate of morbidity and mortality. Fortunately, C. perfringens-associated sepsis and death in the gynecologic patient is rarely encountered. We report a case of intrauterine C. perfringens presenting as life-threatening...

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Autores principales: Bryant, Christopher S., Perry, Latoya, Shah, Jay P., Kumar, Sanjeev, Deppe, Gunter
Formato: Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2010
Materias:
Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2878686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20585368
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/541959

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https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2878686/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20585368
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2010/541959

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