Bacterial gangrene on the cheek of a comatose patient--necrotizing fasciitis or noma.
A 68-year-old Japanese woman with sepsis developed a gangrene on her left cheek from a small wound in contact with a gastric tube. Klebsiella pneumoniae was cultured from the sputum, wound, and the blood and was assumed to be responsible for this condition, possibly through thrombosis of an artery.
Kikuchi
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Sakaguchi
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D000368:Aged; D002610:Cheek; D003128:Coma; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005208:Fasciitis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005734:Gangrene; D006801:Humans; D007710:Klebsiella Infections; D009625:Noma / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology