Necrotizing Fasciitis of the Cervical Region following Extravasation Injury

Necrotizing fasciitis is a rapidly progressive soft tissue infection that can cause local tissue destruction, necrosis, and life threatening severe sepsis. Necrotizing fasciitis in the head and neck region caused by an extravasation injury is rare. This paper reports a patient with necrotizing fasci...

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Autores principales: Gündeşlioğlu, Ayşe Özlem, Özen, Emine Çiğdem
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3521693/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23251188
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/941578
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description Necrotizing fasciitis is a rapidly progressive soft tissue infection that can cause local tissue destruction, necrosis, and life threatening severe sepsis. Necrotizing fasciitis in the head and neck region caused by an extravasation injury is rare. This paper reports a patient with necrotizing fasciitis of the cervical region caused by an extravasation injury which required an early surgical debridement.
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spelling pubmed-35216932012-12-18 Necrotizing Fasciitis of the Cervical Region following Extravasation Injury Gündeşlioğlu, Ayşe Özlem Özen, Emine Çiğdem Case Rep Med Case Report Necrotizing fasciitis is a rapidly progressive soft tissue infection that can cause local tissue destruction, necrosis, and life threatening severe sepsis. Necrotizing fasciitis in the head and neck region caused by an extravasation injury is rare. This paper reports a patient with necrotizing fasciitis of the cervical region caused by an extravasation injury which required an early surgical debridement. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-11-21 /pmc/articles/PMC3521693/ /pubmed/23251188 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/941578 Text en Copyright © 2012 A. Ö. Gündeşlioğlu and E. Ç. Özen. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Necrotizing Fasciitis of the Cervical Region following Extravasation Injury
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title_full Necrotizing Fasciitis of the Cervical Region following Extravasation Injury
title_fullStr Necrotizing Fasciitis of the Cervical Region following Extravasation Injury
title_full_unstemmed Necrotizing Fasciitis of the Cervical Region following Extravasation Injury
title_short Necrotizing Fasciitis of the Cervical Region following Extravasation Injury
title_sort necrotizing fasciitis of the cervical region following extravasation injury
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3521693/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23251188
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