Necrotizing fasciitis(NF) is an extreme form of soft tissue infections. Historically, it has a terrible reputation and still can have an ominous clinical presentation in modern days. Until the twentieth Century, it was responsible for hundreds of thousands of severe infections, disfiguring mutilations, and horrible deaths.Thankfully the incidence of necrotizing fasciitis has dramatically gone w...

Methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is a rarely reported cause of necrotizing fasciitis. We report an unusually severe case of MRSA necrotizing fasciitis in a previously undiagnosed AIDS patient. Molecular analysis revealed that the strain had the USA300/spa1 genotype, now an abundant cause of community-acquired MRSA infection.

Necrotising fasciitis is a rare but severe infection of soft-tissue associated with rapid progression, systemic toxicity and high mortality. Monomicrobial necrotising fasciitis caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa is exceptionally uncommon with only 12 cases reported in the literature. We describe a fatal case with an atypical presentation in a patient following spinal decompression for a metastasi...

Plantar fasciitis unfortunately has the reputation of being a trivial condition clinically, in that it is described as benign and self limiting 2 with limited evidence to support any of the common treatments. However, the medical profession is starting to appreciate that the greatest public health challenge in Western countries is physical inactivity. In this context, plantar fasciitis, which i...

Plantar fasciitis or heel pain syndrome is a common cause of heel and foot pain in adults that affects about 2 million Americans a year and it is estimated that about 10% of the world’s population have presented or will present foot pain at some time in their life. Objective: To review the literature in order to verify the effectiveness of the modalities of physical therapy in patients with pla...

Nodular fasciitis is a well established clinical entity of unknown pathogenesis. A traumatic aetiology is postulated yet specific examples are not documented. We present a case directly attributable to an epidural injection.

A 3-day-old baby girl developed septicaemia, meningitis, and necrotising fasciitis due to group A beta-haemolytic streptococcus, type M52, which was also cultured from the mother's cervix. Necrotising fasciitis is a severe infection of the skin and subcutaneous tissues with infarction, necrosis, and sloughing of the affected areas. Early recognition of this condition is essential so that approp...

Necrotising fasciitis is a rapidly progressive, aggressive bacterial infection of the subcutis associated with significant morbidity and mortality in both man and domestic animals. To the best of our knowledge, this is the first veterinary report of magnetic resonance imaging findings in necrotising fasciitis, and the first reported case in a dog to be successfully treated with minimally invasi...

Abstract Actinomyces europaeus is a sub-species of actinomyces first isolated in humans 1997. It commensal bacteria found within the genitourinary and gastrointestinal tract. Although it known to cause soft tissue infection has been abscesses, never identified as primary pathogen case necrotizing fasciitis. We present 59-year-old man with recurrent groin infections, poorly controlled Type 2 dia...