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    Necrotizing fasciitis (NF), also known as flesh-eating disease, is a bacterial infection that results in the death of parts of the body's soft tissue...
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    often involves one of the following diseases: Necrotizing fasciitis Plantar fasciitis Ischemic fasciitis, classified by the World Health Organization,...
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    more serious infections such as an underlying bone infection or necrotizing fasciitis should be ruled out. Treatment is typically with antibiotics taken...
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    dry gangrene, wet gangrene, gas gangrene, internal gangrene, and necrotizing fasciitis. The diagnosis of gangrene is based on symptoms and supported by...
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    Leclerc JE, Lemaire-Lambert A (November 2020). "Necrotizing epiglottitis with necrotizing fasciitis in a child: A case report and review of literature"...
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  • and cluster headaches. A study has found botox effective against necrotizing fasciitis caused by S. pyogenes in mice. Its mechanism of action is by blocking...
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    Necrosis (redirect from Necrotizing)
    feed larvae. Avascular necrosis Frostbite Gangrene Necroptosis Necrotizing fasciitis Osteonecrosis of the jaw Toxic epidermal necrolysis Proskuryakov...
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    invasion and multiplication in the fascia beneath the skin can lead to necrotizing fasciitis, a life-threatening surgical emergency. The bacterium is also an...
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    Fournier gangrene is a type of necrotizing fasciitis or gangrene affecting the external genitalia or perineum. It commonly occurs in older men, but it...
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    summer of 1994, he was rushed to the hospital and diagnosed with necrotizing fasciitis. To save his life, surgeons operated on Franklin's arm, but since...
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