Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections


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Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infections

Chance Witt MDa, Sharmila Dissanaike MDb

Correspondence to Sharmila Dissanaike MD

Email: sharmila.dissanaike@ttuhsc.edu



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  a  a resident in General Surgery at the Mayo School of Graduate Medical Education in Rochester, MN

  b a trauma and burn surgeon in the Department of Surgery at TTUHSC in Lubbock, TX

 




SWRCCC 2013;1.(1):30

doi: 10.12746/swrccc2013.0101.009

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Figure 1 Left leg with necrotizing soft tissue infections.





 Figure 2 Debridement of the left leg: showing purulence



This is a very heavy woman who initially had an Necrotizing Soft Tissue Infection (NSTI) of the right leg which was extensively debrided and skin grafted and healed well, then presented 2 months later with a new NSTI of the left leg.



References

	 Wong CH, Chang HC, Pasupathy S, et al. Necrotizing fasciitis: clinical presentation, microbiology, and determinants of mortality. J Bone Joint Surg Am 2003; 85:1454-60.


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Received: 09/16/2012

Accepted: 12/19/2012

Reviewers: Kenneth Nugent MD, Richard Winn MD

Published electronically:  01/31/2012

Conflict of Interest Disclosures: none

 

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