Necrotizing fasciitis in a young patient with acute myeloid leukemia – a diagnostic challenge
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- 1 January 2014
- journal article
- Published by Springer Nature in Patient Safety in Surgery
- Vol. 8 (1) , 28
Abstract
Necrotizing fasciitis is characterized by a fulminant destruction of the soft tissue with an alarmingly high mortality rate. One of the main reasons for the continued high mortality is due to the challenge to punctual recognize and diagnose this disease, as specific cutaneous signs can vary or even be missing early in its evolution – especially in case of simultaneous first manifestation of an acute leukemia.Keywords
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