Lota A S, Altaf F, Shetty R, Courtney S, McKenna P, Iyer S
Department of Trauma and Orthopaedic Surgery, Royal Berkshire Hospital NHS FoundationTrust, Reading, England.
J Bone Joint Surg Br. 2010 Feb;92(2):284-5. doi: 10.1302/0301-620X.92B2.22688.
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 metastasis from prostate cancer.
