Lower extremity necrotizing fasciitis: A unique initial presentation of Crohn's disease()

Crohn's disease is a disease of the bowel, typically presenting with diarrhea, weight loss, and abdominal pain. Complications such as abscesses, fistulas, and strictures may require surgical intervention. We would like to report a patient with Crohn's disease who presented for the first ti...

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Autores principales: Weiss, Anna, Sandler, Bryan
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4488557/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26155362
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2015.05.007
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description Crohn's disease is a disease of the bowel, typically presenting with diarrhea, weight loss, and abdominal pain. Complications such as abscesses, fistulas, and strictures may require surgical intervention. We would like to report a patient with Crohn's disease who presented for the first time with left lower extremity necrotizing fasciitis. There are very few reports of necrotizing fasciitis in Crohn's disease as the initial presentation.
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spelling pubmed-44885572015-07-07 Lower extremity necrotizing fasciitis: A unique initial presentation of Crohn's disease() Weiss, Anna Sandler, Bryan Ann Med Surg (Lond) Case Report Crohn's disease is a disease of the bowel, typically presenting with diarrhea, weight loss, and abdominal pain. Complications such as abscesses, fistulas, and strictures may require surgical intervention. We would like to report a patient with Crohn's disease who presented for the first time with left lower extremity necrotizing fasciitis. There are very few reports of necrotizing fasciitis in Crohn's disease as the initial presentation. Elsevier 2015-05-23 /pmc/articles/PMC4488557/ /pubmed/26155362 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2015.05.007 Text en © 2015 Published by Elsevier Ltd on behalf of IJS Publishing Group Limited. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Lower extremity necrotizing fasciitis: A unique initial presentation of Crohn's disease()
title Lower extremity necrotizing fasciitis: A unique initial presentation of Crohn's disease()
title_full Lower extremity necrotizing fasciitis: A unique initial presentation of Crohn's disease()
title_fullStr Lower extremity necrotizing fasciitis: A unique initial presentation of Crohn's disease()
title_full_unstemmed Lower extremity necrotizing fasciitis: A unique initial presentation of Crohn's disease()
title_short Lower extremity necrotizing fasciitis: A unique initial presentation of Crohn's disease()
title_sort lower extremity necrotizing fasciitis: a unique initial presentation of crohn's disease()
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4488557/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/26155362
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.amsu.2015.05.007
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