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Metastatic Gas gangrene and Colonic Perforation: a case report.

Powell MJ, Sasapu KK, Macklin C

Mid Yorkshire NHS trust, Pinderfields General Hospital, Wakefield, Yorkshire, UK. matt.powell73@ntlworld.com.

ABSTRACT: Clostridium septicum myonecrosis is associated with diabetes, colorectal and haematological malignancies. We present a case of metastatic myonecrosis in a diabetic patient with a perforated caecal tumour. The literature since 1989 is reviewed and 28 cases of Clostridium septicum myonecrosis are discussed.

Published 16 April 2008 in World J Emerg Surg, 3: 15.
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