Evaluation and management of necrotizing soft tissue infections

SL Bonne, SS Kadri - Infectious Disease Clinics, 2017 - id.theclinics.com
Necrotizing soft tissue infections (NSTIs) are rapidly progressive skin and soft tissue
infections that cause widespread tissue necrosis and are associated with systemic illness. 1
The term NSTI has been increasingly used in lieu of the term necrotizing fasciitis, originally
coined by BL Wilson 2 in 1952 to encompass cases in which necrosis a Division of Trauma
and Critical Care, Department of Surgery, Rutgers New Jersey Medical School, 185 South
Orange Avenue, Newark, NJ 07101, USA; b Clinical Epidemiology Section, Department of …