1.
Endoscopy
; 49(S 01): E129-E131, 2017 Feb.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-28329880
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Intern Med
; 44(5): 499-502, 2005 May.
Article
in English
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-15942103
ABSTRACT
Clostridium perfringens (C.P) gas gangrene is one of the most fulminant infectious diseases. We encountered fulminant massive gas gangrene in a 56- year-old man with alcoholic liver cirrhosis. The patient died 14 hours after diagnosis of gas gangrene (54 hours after admission). Dramatic changes in abdominal CT imaging revealed development of a massive volume of gas in the intra-portal vein, retroperitoneum and abdominal subcutaneous tissue within 24 hours. We also proved C.P infection by immunohistological staining, leading to a diagnosis of C.P gas gangrene.