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1C16 Gas gangrene

International Classification of Diseases for Mortality and Morbidity Statistics, 11th Revision, v2024-01

Gas gangrene or clostridial myonecrosis is a potentially fatal, rapidly progressive necrotizing infection of muscle and soft tissue resulting from bacterial invasion of healthy muscle from adjacent traumatized muscle or soft tissue. The infection originates in a wound contaminated with bacteria of the genus Clostridium. C. perfringens accounts for the majority of cases (over eighty percent), while C. novyi, C. septicum, and C. histolyticum cause most of the other cases.

synonyms

• Gas gangrene
• gas gangrene due to clostridia
• Clostridial myonecrosis
• Clostridial cellulitis

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