progressive bacterial synergistic gangrene
- progressive bacterial synergistic gangrene
- progressive synergistic gangrene, progressive synergistic bacterial gangrene gangrene of the skin due to synergistic infection by bacteria such as aerobic hemolytic Staphylococcus aureus, microaerophilic nonhemolytic streptococci, or gram-negative rods; it occurs most often as a complication of abdominal surgery, thoracic surgery, or a traumatic wound. The characteristic lesion is a wide area of cellulitis that later ulcerates and enlarges to form a plaque with central granulation surrounded by gangrenous skin having an undermined, rolled, darker border. See also Meleney ulcer (def. 1). Called also burrowing phagedenic ulcer, Meleney ulcer, Meleney synergistic g., and undermining burrowing ulcer.
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