Clostridium septicum septicemia with identical metastatic myonecroses in a granulocytopenic patient. Infectious disease emergency.
Clostridium septicum is a gram-positive, sporulating spindle-shaped rod. Gas gangrene secondary to trauma is not uncommon. However, nontraumatic clostridial infection causing myonecrosis is quite unusual. This is a unique case report of Clostridium septicum bacteremia with two simultaneously evolving metastatic foci of myonecrosis of the left arm and right thigh that developed in a patient with lymphoma when he became granulocytopenic during his hospital course.
D000380:Agranulocytosis / Q000150:complications*; D003015:Clostridium Infections / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009132:Muscles / Q000473:pathology*; D009135:Muscular Diseases / Q000209:etiology*; D009336:Necrosis; D013902:Radiography, Thoracic