Patients are often much less toxic compared with necrotizing fasciitis/necrotizing myositis
Two types:
Anaerobic infection (clostridial and nonclostridial)
Meleney's synergistic gangrene
Rare infection that occurs in postop patients
Characterized by slowly expanding indolent ulceration that is confined to superficial fascia
Results from synergistic interaction between S. aureus and microaerophilic streptococci
Anaerobic infection (clostridial and nonclostridial)
Meleney's synergistic gangrene
Rare infection that occurs in postop patients
Characterized by slowly expanding indolent ulceration that is confined to superficial fascia
Results from synergistic interaction between S. aureus and microaerophilic streptococci
Rare infection that occurs in postop patients
Characterized by slowly expanding indolent ulceration that is confined to superficial fascia
Results from synergistic interaction between S. aureus and microaerophilic streptococci
Trauma
Surgical contamination
Spread of infection from bowel to perineum, abdominal wall, or lower extremities
Necrotizing cellulitis
Cellulitis
Pyoderma gangrenosum
Hand cellulitis
Necrotizing fasciitis
Facial cellulitis
Orbital cellulitis
Wet gangrene