Unusual cause of Fournier’s gangrene: colorectal-genitourinary tract fistulae status post brachytherapy
| Autor: | William J Devan, Nabil Saleem, Graham T VerLee, Daniel Pitts |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2020 |
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medicine.medical_specialty Fistula Urinary Fistula Urinary system medicine.medical_treatment Brachytherapy 030232 urology & nephrology Context (language use) Unusual Association of Diseases/Symptoms Status post Diagnosis Differential 03 medical and health sciences Prostate cancer Colonic Diseases 0302 clinical medicine medicine Intestinal Fistula Humans Gangrene business.industry Genitourinary system Soft tissue Prostatic Neoplasms General Medicine Middle Aged medicine.disease Radiology Genital Diseases Male business Tomography X-Ray Computed 030217 neurology & neurosurgery Fournier Gangrene |
| Zdroj: | BMJ Case Rep |
| Popis: | There are few reports of radiation associated colorectal–genitourinary tract (CRGU) fistulae causing Fournier’s gangrene (FG). We describe a case of FG in a patient with possibly two CRGU fistulae in the context of previous high-dose brachytherapy and external beam radiation therapy for prostate cancer. Unfortunately, CRGU fistulae are not well classified as significant risk factors for the development of FG. Our case demonstrates the rationale for maintaining a broad differential in patients presenting with recurrent urinary tract symptoms or necrotising soft tissue infections to include undiagnosed fistulae. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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