2017, Number 2
Necrotizing fascitis. Presentationof a patient
Barrios VO, Cabrera GJ, Camp MI, Armas VR
Language: Spanish
References: 0
Page: 190-196
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ABSTRACT
Necrotizing fascitis is a critical and non-frequent infectious disease of the skin and soft tissues, associatedto a high mortality. Generallyit has a poli-microbial etiology, its management is difficult and it represents a challenge for all the health personnel involved in the treatment. A patient comes with that diagnosis assisted in General Surgery Service at "LeopolditoMartínez" General Teaching Hospital in San José de lasLajas, Mayabequeprovince, the patient went to the hospital complaining of a perianal abscess that developed to a necrotizing fascitis affecting the right scrotumin the inguinal site and all the anterolateral abdomen wall , developing asepticshock. In this patient it was a clinical diagnosisthe therapeutic management was a surgical treatment,the use of systemic antimicrobials and topicoleozon. The evolution was good.