title: [Gas gangrene disclosing colonic cancer. Role of synergistic gangrene].
abstract: After reporting a case of synergistic gas gangrene of the retroperitoneum spreading to the thigh, revealing a carcinoma of the descending colon, the authors review the symptomatology and management of synergistic gas gangrene defined as a gas gangrene due to anaerobic non clostridial bacilli, and aerobic flora and emphasize the exceptional nature of its association with a carcinoma of the colon.
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications* / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging; D005738:Gas Gangrene / Q000000981:diagnostic imaging / Q000209:etiology* / Q000382:microbiology; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D011859:Radiography
vernacular_title: Gangrène gazeuse révélant un cancer colique. Place de la gangrène synergistique.