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Clostridial myonecrosis in an adolescent male
Melissa Langhan1, Linda Arnold
1Department of Pediatric Emergency Medicine, Yale-New Haven Children's Hospital, New Haven, CT 06851, USA. melissa.langhan@yale.edu
Pediatrics
|October 4, 2005
Abstract:
Extremity pain is a common complaint in adolescents. Pain out of proportion to examination findings should raise suspicion of deep tissue infection. Clostridial myonecrosis is a rapidly progressive disease consisting of muscle necrosis and systemic toxicity. It is usually seen in elderly and immunocompromised patients. Here we report a case of clostridial myonecrosis in an adolescent male.