Chapter 2-12-5. Anaerobic infections (individual fields): necrotizing fasciitis.

摘要

Necrotizing fasciitis is a generic term for infections of soft tissue with necrosis. The lesion involves subcutaneous tissue and superficial fascia and spreads rapidly to involve the deep fascia. It has been proposed that these conditions including descending necrotizing mediastinitis (due to dental caries) in the neck, Fournier's syndrome in the genitalia, gaseous gangrene, and fulminant infection with group A hemolytic Streptococcus (the so-called "killer bug") should be generalized as skin/soft tissue infections [1,2].