Fatal Necrotizing Fasciitis in a Child following a Blunt Chest Trauma

Necrotizing fasciitis is a serious soft tissue infection rarely occurring in children after blunt trauma. Due to its high morbidity and mortality rates, a high index of suspicion is necessary for prompt diagnosis and treatment. We describe a 6-year-old Costa Rican girl who died secondary to multiple...

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Autores principales: Ocaña, Yohel, Ulloa-Gutierrez, Rolando, Yock-Corrales, Adriana
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3623462/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23607028
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/373712
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author Ocaña, Yohel
Ulloa-Gutierrez, Rolando
Yock-Corrales, Adriana
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description Necrotizing fasciitis is a serious soft tissue infection rarely occurring in children after blunt trauma. Due to its high morbidity and mortality rates, a high index of suspicion is necessary for prompt diagnosis and treatment. We describe a 6-year-old Costa Rican girl who died secondary to multiple complications following a posttraumatic necrotizing fasciitis.
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spelling pubmed-36234622013-04-19 Fatal Necrotizing Fasciitis in a Child following a Blunt Chest Trauma Ocaña, Yohel Ulloa-Gutierrez, Rolando Yock-Corrales, Adriana Case Rep Pediatr Case Report Necrotizing fasciitis is a serious soft tissue infection rarely occurring in children after blunt trauma. Due to its high morbidity and mortality rates, a high index of suspicion is necessary for prompt diagnosis and treatment. We describe a 6-year-old Costa Rican girl who died secondary to multiple complications following a posttraumatic necrotizing fasciitis. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-03-27 /pmc/articles/PMC3623462/ /pubmed/23607028 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/373712 Text en Copyright © 2013 Yohel Ocaña et al. 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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Fatal Necrotizing Fasciitis in a Child following a Blunt Chest Trauma
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title_short Fatal Necrotizing Fasciitis in a Child following a Blunt Chest Trauma
title_sort fatal necrotizing fasciitis in a child following a blunt chest trauma
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3623462/
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