Plantar Fasciitis: eMedicine Emergency Medicine

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Plantar Fasciitis: eMedicine Emergency Medicine

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Overview: Plantar fasciitis is the most common cause of heel pain for which professional care is sought. Various terms have been used to describe it including jogger's heel, tennis heel, Policeman's heel, and an outdated term, gonorrheal ...

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Most Recently Shared on May 5, 2010 at 2:23 pm By:

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Plantar fasciitis is the most common cause of heel pain for which professional care is sought. Learn more. http://bit.ly/bphBwe

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Necrotizing Fasciitis: eMedicine Emergency Medicine

emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: For more than a century, many authors have described soft tissue infections. Their occurrence has been on the rise because of an increase in immunocompromised patients with diabetes mellitus, cancer, alcoholism, vascular insufficiencies, organ transplants, HIV, ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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Necrotizing fasciitis can occur after trauma or around foreign bodies in surgical wounds, or it can be idiopathic. http://bit.ly/aY7oL8

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Fournier Gangrene: eMedicine Emergency Medicine

emedicine.medscape.com — “Overview: In 1883, the French venereologist Jean Alfred Fournier described a series in which 5 previously healthy young men suffered from a rapidly progressive gangrene of the penis and scrotum without apparent cause. This condition, now known ...View full resource at emedicine.medscape.com

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Most Recently Shared on April 27, 2010 at 4:15 am By:

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Fournier gangrene is defined as a polymicrobial necrotizing fasciitis of the perineal, perianal, or genital areas. http://bit.ly/cu00jV

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