Fournier's Gangrene of the Penis following a Human Bite Wound

Fournier's gangrene isolated to the penis is exceedingly rare. It is an urologic emergency that requires emergent parenteral antibiotics as well as aggressive irrigation and debridement. While human bite wounds can be overlooked as a serious cause of injury and infection, they can result in hig...

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Autores principales: Overholt, Tyler, Hajiran, Ali, Ueno, Cristiane, Zaslau, Stanley
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi 2018
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6222233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30498616
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/9798607
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author Overholt, Tyler
Hajiran, Ali
Ueno, Cristiane
Zaslau, Stanley
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description Fournier's gangrene isolated to the penis is exceedingly rare. It is an urologic emergency that requires emergent parenteral antibiotics as well as aggressive irrigation and debridement. While human bite wounds can be overlooked as a serious cause of injury and infection, they can result in highly dangerous, polymicrobial infections in affected patients. Here, we report a case of penile Fournier's gangrene caused by a human bite wound managed with broad spectrum antibiotics, irrigation and debridement, penile reconstruction, and skin grafting with successful preservation of a normal penile structure and function.
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spelling pubmed-62222332018-11-29 Fournier's Gangrene of the Penis following a Human Bite Wound Overholt, Tyler Hajiran, Ali Ueno, Cristiane Zaslau, Stanley Case Rep Urol Case Report Fournier's gangrene isolated to the penis is exceedingly rare. It is an urologic emergency that requires emergent parenteral antibiotics as well as aggressive irrigation and debridement. While human bite wounds can be overlooked as a serious cause of injury and infection, they can result in highly dangerous, polymicrobial infections in affected patients. Here, we report a case of penile Fournier's gangrene caused by a human bite wound managed with broad spectrum antibiotics, irrigation and debridement, penile reconstruction, and skin grafting with successful preservation of a normal penile structure and function. Hindawi 2018-10-25 /pmc/articles/PMC6222233/ /pubmed/30498616 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/9798607 Text en Copyright © 2018 Tyler Overholt et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ 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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Overholt, Tyler
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6222233/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30498616
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2018/9798607
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