title: [Gas gangrene or inflammation of the neck--diagnostic difficulties].
abstract: The authors describe a patient with an extensive inflammation of the neck soft tissues as a complication of the peritonsillar abscess. Follow-up computed tomography revealed gasi-form follicles in the inflammed neck soft tissues, suggesting gas gangrene. We report disseminate ways of the inflammation process on the financial tonsil, reasons of the gangrene also the infections of soft tissues caused by anaerobic bacteries--Clostridium. CT--examination in inflammatory tumors of the neck is valuable, permits to exclude expansion process, but it cannot give unequivocal answer to differentiate gas gangrene and phlegmon.
authors.affiliation: Zakład Radiologii Lekarskiej 4 Wojskowego Szpitala Klinicznego z Poliklinika SPZOZ we Wrocławiu.
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Kedzierski
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Całka
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Wilczyński
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Bojarski
authors.forename: P
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Jaźwiec
authors.forename: M T
authors.initials: MT
authors.lastname: Bogdał
authors.forename: W
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Stokrocki
mesh_terms: D001424:Bacterial Infections / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004322:Drainage; D005500:Follow-Up Studies; D005738:Gas Gangrene / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D000039:Peritonsillar Abscess / Q000150:complications*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed