ReviewWorld journal of gastroenterology2015
Rectal cancer and Fournier's gangrene - current knowledge and therapeutic options.
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- Case Report: Multidisciplinary collaboration for the treatment of severe necrotizing fasciitis in the perineum caused by rectal cancer perforation.Frontiers in surgery · 2026Article
- The Usefulness of DEPAP Flaps for Reconstructing Perineal Defects Caused by Fournier's Gangrene: A Case Report.Journal of clinical medicine · 2025Article
- Fournier's gangrene with anal cancer: a case report and literature review.Journal of surgical case reports · 2025Article
- Case report: is necrotizing fasciitis in a rectal cancer patient after targeted systemic therapy related to the tumor site? - evidence from a hepatocellular carcinoma patient.Infectious agents and cancer · 2024Article
- Suspected coexistence of perianal necrotizing sweet syndrome in chronic myelomonocytic leukemia: A case report.World journal of gastrointestinal surgery · 2024Article
- Fournier's gangrene due to rectal cancer: A case report.Molecular and clinical oncology · 2024Article
- Fournier's gangrene after insertion of thermo-expandable prostatic stent for benign prostatic hyperplasia: A case report.World journal of clinical cases · 2023Article
- Successful resection of rectal cancer and perirectal abscess following systemic chemotherapy and chemoradiotherapy: A case report.International journal of surgery case reports · 2023Article
- Clinical complete response maintained for more than 5 years after aggressive chemoradiotherapy for advanced rectal cancer with necrotizing fasciitis: a case report.Journal of surgical case reports · 2023Article
- Effect of Colostomy on Treatment Outcome in Fournier Gangrene: A Prospective Comparative Study.Plastic surgery (Oakville, Ont.) · 2023Article
- A Case Report of Fournier's Gangrene.Journal of education & teaching in emergency medicine · 2022Article
- WSES/GAIS/WSIS/SIS-E/AAST global clinical pathways for patients with skin and soft tissue infections.World journal of emergency surgery : WJES · 2022Review
- Buschke-Löwenstein tumour: a rare and challenging entity.BMJ case reports · 2021Article
- Fournier's Gangrene in the Setting of Underlying Carcinoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.Cureus · 2020Article
- Fournier's gangrene in a rectal cancer patient.International journal of surgery case reports · 2020Article
- A fatal case of Fournier's gangrene during neoadjuvant radiotherapy for rectal cancer.Strahlentherapie und Onkologie : Organ der Deutschen Rontgengesellschaft ... [et al] · 2019Article
- Necrotizing pelvic infection after rectal resection. A rare indication of endoscopic vacuum-assisted closure therapy. A case report.International journal of surgery case reports · 2019Article
- Fournier Gangrene in a patient receiving chemo-radiation for rectal cancer.Oxford medical case reports · 2018Article
- Fournier's gangrene: prospective study of 34 patients in South Indian population and treatment strategies.The Pan African medical journal · 2018Article
- Severe Fournier's gangrene in a patient with rectal cancer: case report and literature review.World journal of surgical oncology · 2016Review
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Abstract
Fournier's gangrene (FG) is a rapid progressive bacterial infection that involves the subcutaneous fascia and part of the deep fascia but spares the muscle in the scrotal, perianal and perineal region. The incidence has increased dramatically, while the reported incidence of rectal cancer-induced FG is unknown but is extremely low. Pathophysiology and clinical presentation of rectal cancer-induced FG per se does not differ from the other causes. Only rectal cancer-specific symptoms before presentation can lead to the diagnosis. The diagnosis of rectal cancer-induced FG should be excluded in every patient with blood on digital rectal examination, when urogenital and dermatological causes are excluded and when fever or sepsis of unknown origin is present with perianal symptomatology. Therapeutic options are more complex than for other forms of FG. First, the causative rectal tumor should be removed. The survival of patients with rectal cancer resection is reported as 100%, while with colostomy it is 80%. The preferred method of rectal resection has not been defined. Second, oncological treatment should be administered but the timing should be adjusted to the resolution of the FG and sometimes for the healing of plastic reconstructive procedures that are commonly needed for the reconstruction of large perineal, scrotal and lower abdominal wall defects.
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