Lumbosacral necrotizing fasciitis after thoracic drainage: a case report documenting subcutaneous and fascial spread
Wei Li, Hui Shen, Qing Li, Jie Wu, Mingfeng Han, Quankui Zhuang · 2026
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Description
Wei Li and five colleagues document how a flesh-destroying infection travelled from a chest drain site down to a man's back and killed him. Necrotising fasciitis usually starts at a wound; spread along tissue planes from chest to pelvis is rare. The patient, 61, had alcoholic cirrhosis and a smoking and drinking history. A drain placed for infected fluid around his lung drew off foul pus, yet the infection kept moving under his skin.
Serial scans, surgical exploration, and microbe cultures let the team trace the route through the loose tissue layers, a fascial highway from thorax to lumbosacral region. Despite care the case proved fatal. The authors publish the chain because this path is so poorly documented that diagnosis often comes late. Their warning is aimed at clinicians caring for immune-weakened patients with chest drains: watch the skin far from the tube, not only at it.
Catalog record
| CREATOR | Wei Li, Hui Shen, Qing Li, Jie Wu, Mingfeng Han, Quankui Zhuang |
|---|---|
| YEAR | 2026 |
| COLLECTION | PAPERS |
| FORMAT | TXT |
| FILE SIZE | 39776 |
| LICENSE | https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0 |
| RIGHTS | CC BY |
| SOURCE | Europe PMC |