A presentation of facial necrotizing fasciitis with orbital involvement

Necrotizing fasciitis is a rare, severe, life-threatening soft tissue infection. Rapid progression and systemic illness are recognized features of the condition in which a high index of suspicion is essential to prompt early diagnosis and ensure a favourable outcome. Management necessitates immediat...

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Autores principales: McAllister, Peter, O'Neill, Francis, Bharadwaj, Girish, O'Regan, Barry, Laverick, Sean
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2013
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Case Reports
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3578665/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24963931
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjs033
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author McAllister, Peter
O'Neill, Francis
Bharadwaj, Girish
O'Regan, Barry
Laverick, Sean
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description Necrotizing fasciitis is a rare, severe, life-threatening soft tissue infection. Rapid progression and systemic illness are recognized features of the condition in which a high index of suspicion is essential to prompt early diagnosis and ensure a favourable outcome. Management necessitates immediate and aggressive surgical and antimicrobial treatment. This case report describes the rare presentation of facial necrotizing fasciitis with orbital involvement that required initial and subsequent widespread surgical resection within the first 24 h of admission, including unilateral enucleation of infected orbital contents.
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spelling pubmed-35786652013-02-22 A presentation of facial necrotizing fasciitis with orbital involvement McAllister, Peter O'Neill, Francis Bharadwaj, Girish O'Regan, Barry Laverick, Sean J Surg Case Rep Case Reports Necrotizing fasciitis is a rare, severe, life-threatening soft tissue infection. Rapid progression and systemic illness are recognized features of the condition in which a high index of suspicion is essential to prompt early diagnosis and ensure a favourable outcome. Management necessitates immediate and aggressive surgical and antimicrobial treatment. This case report describes the rare presentation of facial necrotizing fasciitis with orbital involvement that required initial and subsequent widespread surgical resection within the first 24 h of admission, including unilateral enucleation of infected orbital contents. Oxford University Press 2013-01 2013-01-04 /pmc/articles/PMC3578665/ /pubmed/24963931 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjs033 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. All rights reserved. © The Author 2013 http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/), which permits non-commercial reuse, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited. For commercial re-use, please contact journals.permissions@oup.com.
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