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[Role of the plastic surgeon in the management of ecthyma gangrenosum in children: clinical example].

Ecthyma gangrenosum is a cutaneous infection, which result from a Pseudomonas aeruginosa septicemia, encountered in most of the case in immunocompromised people. Authors demonstrate the important role of the plastic surgeon in the diagnosis and therapeutic management of the disease in children. An eight-month-old infant has been hospitalized for acute leukaemia. She developed an extensive painful macule in the buttocks and perineal area in a septic context. A multidisciplinary management allowed to set up an adapted antibiotherapy, an early escharrotomy, a protection of the wound by digestive and urine derivation and a reconstruction with wound healing by second intention and split thickness skin graft, which lead to a good quality cure and wound healing at the end of 37 days of evolution. This case demonstrates the importance of the surgical management in the treatment of ecthyma gangrenosum. The wound healing associated with a split thickness skin graft seems to be the less invasive solution in a frail patient and the fastest to re-start the chemotherapy.

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