Patients will give a history of minor trauma such as contusion, insect bite, frostbite, chronic leg ulcer, or a surgical incision, and present with severe pain and edema to their health care ...

In summary, NF is a life-threatening infection causing rapid necrosis of the fascia. Nurses have the opportunity to identify patients at risk and to assess wound characteristics and changes ...

In a new case report published April 8 in the journal BMJ Case Reports, U.K. doctors describe three patients who were found to have necrotizing fasciitis of the vulva. The vulva includes the ...