Lagangrene typhique chez l'enfant: [a propos d'une observation]

ABSTRACT

The authors report one case of a symmetrical gangrene of the feet noted during enteric fever in a 10 years old female child. Such complication is rare and it has a lot of pathogenic factors which all are incriminated in creating a low perfusion phenomenon occurring to a disseminated intravascular coagulation which is amplified or created by a blood circulation failure. A personal predisposition to this kind of complication is still hypothetic