"Fasciitis, Necrotizing" is a descriptor in the National Library of Medicine's controlled vocabulary thesaurus,
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A fulminating bacterial infection of the deep layers of the skin and FASCIA. It can be caused by many different organisms, with STREPTOCOCCUS PYOGENES being the most common.
| Descriptor ID |
D019115
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| MeSH Number(s) |
C01.252.825.340 C05.321.550
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| Concept/Terms |
Fasciitis, Necrotizing- Fasciitis, Necrotizing
- Fasciitides, Necrotizing
- Necrotizing Fasciitides
- Necrotizing Fasciitis
- Fascitis, Necrotizing
- Fascitides, Necrotizing
- Necrotizing Fascitides
- Necrotizing Fascitis
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| Year | Major Topic | Minor Topic | Total |
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| 1999 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2009 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2011 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2013 | 1 | 0 | 1 |
| 2015 | 0 | 1 | 1 |
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Below are the most recent publications written about "Fasciitis, Necrotizing" by people in Profiles.
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Life- and limb-threatening infections following the use of an external fixator. Bone Joint J. 2015 Sep; 97-B(9):1296-300.
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Periocular necrotizing fasciitis causing blindness. JAMA Ophthalmol. 2013 Sep; 131(9):1225-7.
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Early postoperative subcutaneous tissue oxygen predicts surgical site infection. Anesth Analg. 2011 Jun; 112(6):1510; author reply 1510-1.
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Necrotizing fasciitis secondary to bisphosphonate-induced osteonecrosis of the jaw. Am J Otolaryngol. 2010 Mar-Apr; 31(2):127-9.
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Staging of the baboon response to group A streptococci administered intramuscularly: a descriptive study of the clinical symptoms and clinical chemical response patterns. Clin Infect Dis. 1999 Jul; 29(1):167-77.