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Gangrene Summary
617 words, approx. 2 pages
Gangrene is the destruction of body tissue by a bacteria called Clostridium perfringens, or a combination of streptococci and staphylococci bacteria. C. perfringens is wide-spread in soil and the intestinal tracts of humans and animals. It becomes...
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Gangrene Summary
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Gangrene is the destruction of body tissue by a bacteria called Clostridium perfringens, or a combination of streptococci and staphylococcibacteria. C. perfringens is wide-spread in soil and the intestinal tracts of humans and animals. It becomes...
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Gangrene Information
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Gangrene is a complication of necrosis (i.e., cell death) characterized by the decay of body tissues, which become black and malodorous. It is caused by infection or ischemia, such as from thrombosis (blocked blood vessel). It is usually the result of...


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Mayo Clinic Proceedings
Peripheral Symmetrical Gangrene
07/01/2004: 303 words, approx. 1 pages
Peripheral symmetrical gangrene describes the clinical manifestation of sudden onset of peripheral (acral), frequently symmetrical gangrene in the absence of major vascular occlusive disease. The broader term purpura fulminons has been used, but it does not adequately describe this specific scenario. Any condition that...
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The Independent - London
The Truth About... Gangrene
09/04/1998: 494 words, approx. 2 pages
IT IS a truth universally acknowledged in science that natural poisons are infinitely nastier than anything synthesised by man. Nothing illustrates this more clearly than the toxin produced by Clostridium perfringens, a ubiquitous bacterium that causes gas gangrene, a severe infection of open wounds...
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AP Features
Teen Has Breast Removed After Infection
10/27/2006: 320 words, approx. 1 pages
A teenager who decided to get her breasts pierced for her 18th birthday faces reconstructive surgery after a flesh-destroying infection forced doctors to remove her left breast. Stephanie Edington of Crawfordsville remained hospitalized Friday at the Indiana University Medical Center...
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AP News
Amputee found fit to be firefighter
3/14/2007: 345 words, approx. 1 pages
Nearly a year after a city doctor said an amputated leg was the only reason Isaac Feliciano wasn't fit to become a firefighter, he got clearance to pursue his boyhood dream.A state panel on Wednesday ordered that Feliciano be allowed to enter training as a...
 


 

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