Pyoderma Gangrenosum Simulating Necrotizing Fasciitis
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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 fifth century AD, being referred to as a complication of erysipelas. It is a disease characteriz...
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عنوان ژورنال: Case Reports in Medicine
سال: 2015
ISSN: 1687-9627,1687-9635
DOI: 10.1155/2015/504970