Necrotizing Fasciitis of The Abdominal Wall Following Colonoscopy with Fatal Outcome - A Case Report

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Daniel Matz Oleg Heizmann

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Daniel Matz
Department of General, Visceral and Thoracic Surgery, AGAPLESION Diakonie Hospital Rotenburg (Wuemme), Elise Averdieck-Str. 17, 27356 Rotenburg (Wuemme), Germany

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Necrotizing fasciitis (NF) is a serious and potentially life threatening soft tissue infection, usually caused by different types of bacteria such as group A streptococcus, staphylococcus spp. (type 1 infection) or mixed infection by aerobic and anaerobic bacteria (type 2 infection). Usually, the infection arises from skin injury, in injections or surgical procedures and effects the fascia as well as the subcutaneous tissue. Overwhelming progression and difficulties in diagnosing are very common. Mortality rate is up to 100% depending on the type of soft tissue infection and did not markedly decrease in the past decades [1]. Here we present a case of NF with fatal outcome following colonoscopy, which was primarily suspected to be a post polypectomy syndrome.

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Publication history

Received: Tue 24, Sep 2019
Accepted: Wed 09, Oct 2019
Published: Wed 30, Oct 2019

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© 2023 Daniel Matz. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.SCR.2019.05.06