title: Fournier's gangrene: Clinical case and review of the literature.
abstract: Fournier's gangrene is a life-threatening acute necrotizing fasciitis of perianal,genitourinary and perineal areas. Nowadays, is well known that Fournier gangrene is almost never an idiopathic disease. In this article we report a case of a 70-year-old patient that initially was not treated properly. The gold standard therapy of the Fournier's gangrene remains today a complete, early and extended surgical debridement.
authors.affiliation: UO Urology, Santa Maria delle Croci Hospital, Ravenna. r.pernetti@virgilio.it.
authors.forename: Remigio
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Pernetti
authors.forename: Fabiano
authors.initials: F
authors.lastname: Palmieri
authors.forename: Elisabetta
authors.initials: E
authors.lastname: Sagrini
authors.forename: Marco
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Negri
authors.forename: Claudio
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Morisi
authors.forename: Andrea
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Carbone
authors.forename: Paolo
authors.initials: P
authors.lastname: Bassi
authors.forename: Salvatore
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Voce
mesh_terms: D000368:Aged; D003646:Debridement / Q000379:methods*; D018934:Fournier Gangrene / Q000473:pathology / Q000601:surgery*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D019651:Plastic Surgery Procedures / Q000379:methods*