Extremely extended Fournier's gangrene.
We describe a 19-year-old Japanese man with severe extensive necrotizing fasciitis that started as Fournier's gangrene to involve the external genitalia, thigh and lower abdomen. High creatine phosphokinase, transient immunosuppression (reduced serum IgG level and negative tuberculin skin test reaction) and disseminated intravascular coagulation occurred during the necrotizing fasciitis.
Saijo
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Department of Dermatology, Tohoku University School of Medicine, Sendai, Japan.
Kuramoto
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Y
Yoshinari
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Tagami
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H
D000328:Adult; D004211:Disseminated Intravascular Coagulation / Q000097:blood; D005208:Fasciitis / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology*; D005734:Gangrene; D005837:Genitalia, Male / Q000473:pathology*; D006801:Humans; D007108:Immune Tolerance; D008297:Male; D009336:Necrosis; D013290:Streptococcal Infections / Q000473:pathology*; D013297:Streptococcus pyogenes / Q000302:isolation & purification