title: Mucormycosis complicating lower limb crash injury in a multiple traumatised patient: an unusual case.
abstract: Necrotising skin and soft tissues infections are most commonly bacterial in origin. However, saprophytic fungi of the class Zygomycetes, family Mucoraceae, can cause highly aggressive infections (mucormycoses) mainly in immunocompromised patients. Severe trauma is one of the major risk factors for mucormycosis. Fungal traumatic wound infection is an unusual complication associated with crash limb injury. This report describes a case of serious necrotising soft tissue infection caused by Mucor sp following primary fungal environmental wound contamination in a multiply injured patient. Despite undelayed diagnosis and proper treatment (surgical debridement and limb amputation, amphotericin B therapy) the patient presented a fatal outcome.
authors.affiliation: Medical University of Gdańsk, Department of Trauma Surgery, Dêbinki Street 7, Gdañsk, 80-211, Poland.
authors.forename: Mariusz
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Stasiak
authors.forename: Alfred
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Samet
authors.forename: Jerzy
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Lasek
authors.forename: Maria
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Wujtewicz
authors.forename: Zbigniew
authors.initials: Z
authors.lastname: Witkowski
authors.forename: Jolanta
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Komarnicka
authors.forename: Katarzyna
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Golabek-Dropiewska
authors.forename: Bartosz
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Rybak
authors.forename: Marta
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Gross
authors.forename: Wojciech
authors.initials: W
authors.lastname: Marks