Pyoderma Gangrenosum Simulating Necrotizing Fasciitis

Pyoderma gangrenosum received this name due to the notion that this disease was related to infections caused by bacteria in the genus Streptococcus. In contrast to this initial assumption, today the disease is thought to have an autoimmune origin. Necrotizing fasciitis was first mentioned around the...

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Main Authors: Erik Friedrich Alex de Souza, Guilherme Almeida Rosa da Silva, Gustavo Randow dos Santos, Heloisa Loureiro de Sá Neves Motta, Pedro Afonso Nogueira Moisés Cardoso, Marcelo Costa Velho Mendes de Azevedo, Karina Lebeis Pires, Rogerio Neves Motta, Walter de Araujo Eyer Silva, Fernando Raphael de Almeida Ferry, Jorge Francisco da Cunha Pinto
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Wiley 2015-01-01
Series:Case Reports in Medicine
Online Access:http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2015/504970
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