[Huge gangrenous cellulitis. Clinical symptoms-differential diagnosis--therapy].
Extensive necrotizing cellulitis occurs in adults, when body resistance is reduced by serious general disorders. Differential diagnosis should exclude the following diseases: gangrenous erysipelas, necrotizing fasciitis, gangrenous ecthyma, pyoderma gangrenosum, purpura fulminans and Coumarin necrosis. In addition to antibiotic therapy, the removal of vast necrotic areas as well as plastic covering is necessary. A case of typical predisposing disorders, clinical symptoms and development of the disease is reported.
D000368:Aged; D002481:Cellulitis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000473:pathology* / Q000628:therapy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D009336:Necrosis
Grossflächige nekrotisierende weichteilphlegmone. Klinik-Differential-diagnose-Therapie.