Spontaneous necrosis of a single digit: watershed necrosis

Digital Necrosis: A Hoarder’s Tale

Spontaneous Necrosis of Choroidal Melanoma.

BACKGROUND/AIMS The purpose of this study was to examine the clinical presentations and pathological features of spontaneously necrotic choroidal melanomas. METHODS The clinical and histological features of patients who underwent enucleation for uveal melanoma from 1989 to 2012 at Emory University and were found to have spontaneously necrotic choroidal melanomas were retrospectively analyzed....

Spontaneous Necrosis of the Gall Bladder.

RUPTURE of the gall bladder is not an uncommon phenomenon usually associated with gangrene following acute calculous cholecystitis. Cases have been reported following non-calculous cholecy-stitis (Maingot, 1957) and there are other isolated cases of rarer causes. Case Report A male, aged 58, presented with a history of bleeding per rectum for six months. Routine sig-moidoscopy showed a carcinom...

Spontaneous complete necrosis of advanced hepatocellular carcinoma.

We present a rare case of hepatocellular carcinoma (HCC) in which spontaneous complete necrosis was confirmed with surgical resection. An 80-year-old man with HCC was referred to Nippon Medical School Tama Nagayama Hospital. The medical history included hypertension, managed with medication, and partial lobectomy of the lung owing to a lung schwannoma. A previously untreated abdominal aortic an...

Coumarin Induced and Spontaneous Hemorrhagic Skin Necrosis

Patients with coumarin induced skin necrosis presents with painful purpura and erythematous bluish swelling of the skin complicated by blister formation, hemorrhage and immanent gangrene. Coumarin induced hemorrhagic skin necrosis occurs within one week after initiation of coumarin treatment at time of prolonged INR caused by an imbalance within the vitamin K dependent anticoagulant and procoag...