A 72-year-old man with a rapidly progressive sepsis caused by a rare but life-threatening infection.
Department of Internal Medicine, Rijnstate Hospital, Arnhem, the Netherlands. annekebech@hotmail.com
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D015746:Abdominal Pain; D000368:Aged; D003016:Clostridium perfringens / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003110:Colonic Neoplasms / Q000150:complications; D018450:Disease Progression; D005334:Fever / Q000209:etiology; D005738:Gas Gangrene / Q000150:complications* / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000628:therapy; D006801:Humans; D006931:Hyperbaric Oxygenation; D008297:Male; D012772:Shock, Septic / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology*; D014057:Tomography, X-Ray Computed