Fournier's gangrene is a vascular disaster of infective origin, leading to rapid and extensive gangrene of scrotum, undersurface of penis and neighbouring area sometimes. The disaster is results of thrombosis of vessels .supplying the skin and subcutaneous tissue. Thrombosis is caused by infective organisms in the tissue, leading to obi iterative endarteritis of vessels supplying the skin and subcutaneous tissue. Bacteriological picture is varied and inconclusive. Streptococci are isolated in majority of cases either alone or in various combinations. The entire organism isolated from lesion is incapable of producing an extensive lesion on its own.
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