THE CIRCUMCISION REFERENCE LIBRARY
Sydney J. Sussman, MD; Ruth P. Schiller, MD; V. L. Shashikumar, MD
• Three children, aged 9
days, 3 weeks, and 9 1/2 months, were treated for Fournier's
syndrome. The portals of entry for a miscellaneous group of
pathogens included a circumcision in the first, a
circumcision and a diaper rash in the second, and a hot water
burn in the third. The development of the condition after a
circumcision is noteworthy because it is an extremely common
surgical procedure. Medical and minor surgical treatment of
the gangrenous areas during the period of rapid healing was
successful. This approach contrasts with those researchers
who recommend grafts. All three children survived, although one died three years later of
complications from the original burn, and in another,
one testicle could not be palpated after healing.
(Am J Dis Child 132:1189-1191, 1978)
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