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Breast necrotizing fasciitis following stillbirth managed with nipple areola conservation in a resource-poor setting: a case report

Breast necrotizing fasciitis is a rare condition that has a tendency to rapidly progress with untoward morbidity and potential mortality. Its rarity often results to misdiagnosis and the fulminant course of the disease. We wish to present a case managed with nipple areola conservation following earl...

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Autores principales: Maduba, Charles Chidiebele, Nnadozie, Ugochukwu Uzodimma
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Oxford University Press 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7024077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32082537
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz397
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description Breast necrotizing fasciitis is a rare condition that has a tendency to rapidly progress with untoward morbidity and potential mortality. Its rarity often results to misdiagnosis and the fulminant course of the disease. We wish to present a case managed with nipple areola conservation following early intervention. We report a 28-year-old woman managed for unilateral right breast necrotizing fasciitis following stillbirth and resultant breast congestion in a background hypoalbuminemia. Early intervention ensured nipple-areola salvage. Wound was covered with split-thickness skin grafting. Early aggressive intervention in necrotizing fasciitis of the breast in a post-stillbirth lady with congestion contributed to preservation of nipple areola complex with eventual satisfactory management using split-thickness skin grafting.
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spelling pubmed-70240772020-02-20 Breast necrotizing fasciitis following stillbirth managed with nipple areola conservation in a resource-poor setting: a case report Maduba, Charles Chidiebele Nnadozie, Ugochukwu Uzodimma J Surg Case Rep Case Report Breast necrotizing fasciitis is a rare condition that has a tendency to rapidly progress with untoward morbidity and potential mortality. Its rarity often results to misdiagnosis and the fulminant course of the disease. We wish to present a case managed with nipple areola conservation following early intervention. We report a 28-year-old woman managed for unilateral right breast necrotizing fasciitis following stillbirth and resultant breast congestion in a background hypoalbuminemia. Early intervention ensured nipple-areola salvage. Wound was covered with split-thickness skin grafting. Early aggressive intervention in necrotizing fasciitis of the breast in a post-stillbirth lady with congestion contributed to preservation of nipple areola complex with eventual satisfactory management using split-thickness skin grafting. Oxford University Press 2020-02-15 /pmc/articles/PMC7024077/ /pubmed/32082537 http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz397 Text en Published by Oxford University Press and JSCR Publishing Ltd. © The Author(s) 2020. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/), which permits non-commercial re-use, 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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Breast necrotizing fasciitis following stillbirth managed with nipple areola conservation in a resource-poor setting: a case report
title Breast necrotizing fasciitis following stillbirth managed with nipple areola conservation in a resource-poor setting: a case report
title_full Breast necrotizing fasciitis following stillbirth managed with nipple areola conservation in a resource-poor setting: a case report
title_fullStr Breast necrotizing fasciitis following stillbirth managed with nipple areola conservation in a resource-poor setting: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Breast necrotizing fasciitis following stillbirth managed with nipple areola conservation in a resource-poor setting: a case report
title_short Breast necrotizing fasciitis following stillbirth managed with nipple areola conservation in a resource-poor setting: a case report
title_sort breast necrotizing fasciitis following stillbirth managed with nipple areola conservation in a resource-poor setting: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7024077/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32082537
http://dx.doi.org/10.1093/jscr/rjz397
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