Necrotising Fasciitis of Head and Neck in Infants

Necrotising fasciitis (NF) is a rapidly progressing soft tissue infection having high risk of morbidity and mortality. Though it is a common condition encounter in surgical practice for adults, it’s incidence in children are very low. In children also abdomen is the most common site for NF. It’s inv...

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Autores principales: Sahoo, Anjan kumar, Singh, Ishwar, Dhakal, Sunita, Gopal, Ashish
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Springer India 2020
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9702039/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36452758
http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12070-020-01992-w
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description Necrotising fasciitis (NF) is a rapidly progressing soft tissue infection having high risk of morbidity and mortality. Though it is a common condition encounter in surgical practice for adults, it’s incidence in children are very low. In children also abdomen is the most common site for NF. It’s involvement in head and neck is extremely rare. Here we discuss the clinical features and management of three cases of NFs in head and neck region of infants and also look for the etiology, clinical presentation and management for same.
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spelling pubmed-97020392022-11-29 Necrotising Fasciitis of Head and Neck in Infants Sahoo, Anjan kumar Singh, Ishwar Dhakal, Sunita Gopal, Ashish Indian J Otolaryngol Head Neck Surg Original Article Necrotising fasciitis (NF) is a rapidly progressing soft tissue infection having high risk of morbidity and mortality. Though it is a common condition encounter in surgical practice for adults, it’s incidence in children are very low. In children also abdomen is the most common site for NF. It’s involvement in head and neck is extremely rare. Here we discuss the clinical features and management of three cases of NFs in head and neck region of infants and also look for the etiology, clinical presentation and management for same. Springer India 2020-07-28 2022-10 /pmc/articles/PMC9702039/ /pubmed/36452758 http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s12070-020-01992-w Text en © The Author(s) 2020 https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/Open AccessThis article is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License, which permits use, sharing, adaptation, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, as long as you give appropriate credit to the original author(s) and the source, provide a link to the Creative Commons licence, and indicate if changes were made. The images or other third party material in this article are included in the article's Creative Commons licence, unless indicated otherwise in a credit line to the material. If material is not included in the article's Creative Commons licence and your intended use is not permitted by statutory regulation or exceeds the permitted use, you will need to obtain permission directly from the copyright holder. To view a copy of this licence, visit http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) .
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title_short Necrotising Fasciitis of Head and Neck in Infants
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