A 52-Year-Old Diabetic Man with Poor Dental Hygiene, Right Dental Abscess, and Parapharyngeal Abscess with Gas Gangrene Due to Klebsiella pneumoniae Infection, Presenting with Septic Shock and Multiorgan Failure, Who Recovered After Surgical Neck Debridement

Sirinkarn Sookdee; Narit Jianbunjongkit

doi:10.12659/AJCR.940376

24 June 2023: Articles

A 52-Year-Old Diabetic Man with Poor Dental Hygiene, Right Dental Abscess, and Parapharyngeal Abscess with Gas Gangrene Due to Infection, Presenting with Septic Shock and Multiorgan Failure, Who Recovered After Surgical Neck Debridement

Mistake in diagnosis, Diagnostic / therapeutic accidents, Management of emergency care, Rare disease

Sirinkarn Sookdee ^A* , Narit Jianbunjongkit ^D

DOI: 10.12659/AJCR.940376

Am J Case Rep 2023; 24:e940376

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Figure 1. Computed tomography (CT) scan of neck; (A) Coronal view (B) Axial view; CT scan showed the presence of gas involving all cervical spaces: the loculated collection with internal emphysema, 12.6×8.7×6.8 cm from right masticator space, right parotid space, right paralaryngeal space, with swelling of right para- and retropharyngeal soft tissue. The red arrows point to the area of the gas-forming abscess.

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A 52-Year-Old Diabetic Man with Poor Dental Hygiene, Right Dental Abscess, and Parapharyngeal Abscess with Gas Gangrene Due to Infection, Presenting with Septic Shock and Multiorgan Failure, Who Recovered After Surgical Neck Debridement

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