Synergistic bacterial gangrene and allied lesions: a unified etiological theory.
Synergistic bacterial gangrene is a distressing and destructive mixed infection where early recognition is essential. It is suggested that synergistic bacterial gangrene with its allied states may be manifestations of the same process with a wide spectrum. Prompt and appropriate bactericidal therapy may arrest spread before tissue destruction makes radical and immediate surgical intervention, with its attendant high mortality, inevitable.
D000293:Adolescent; D000328:Adult; D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000209:etiology*; D002648:Child; D002675:Child, Preschool; D005260:Female; D005734:Gangrene / Q000209:etiology*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology; D014946:Wound Infection / Q000209:etiology*