Diagnosing Necrotizing Fasciitis

• Published in: The New England journal of medicine Vol. 311; no. 15; pp. 989 - 990
• Format: Journal Article
• Language: English
• Published: United States Massachusetts Medical Society 11.10.1984
• Subjects: Biopsy; Fasciitis - diagnosis; Frozen Sections; Humans; Necrosis

To the Editor: The suggestion that frozen-section biopsy be used for the early recognition of necrotizing fasciitis is interesting, but many questions are raised by the study of Stamenkovic and Lew (June 28 issue). 1 First of all, even though data are provided in Table 3 to assure us that the biopsi...