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Preferred term

Gas Gangrene  

Type

  • Topical Descriptor

Broader concept

Note

  • usually caused by Clostridium perfringens but all C. perfringens infections need not be gas gangrene

Scope note

  • A severe condition resulting from bacteria invading healthy muscle from adjacent traumatized muscle or soft tissue. The infection originates in a wound contaminated with bacteria of the genus CLOSTRIDIUM. C. perfringens accounts for the majority of cases (over eighty percent), while C. noyvi, C. septicum, and C. histolyticum cause most of the other cases.

In other languages

  • kaasukuolio

    Finnish

  • cellulitis clostridialis
  • gangraena emphysematosa
  • gangraena gaseosa
  • gasgangrän
  • kaasuflegmoni
  • kaasugangreena
  • kaasugangreeni
  • klostridiecellulit
  • klostridiemyonekros
  • klostridin aiheuttama lihaskuolio
  • klostridin aiheuttama selluliitti
  • myonecrosis clostridialis
  • Gasgangrän

    Swedish

URI

http://www.yso.fi/onto/mesh/D005738

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