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Foot Gangrene Clinical examination showed that the pus from the gangrenous 2 toe has tracked down
to the sole and caused extensive gangrenous changes in the planter aspect of the foot.

An elderly diabetic

patient on haemodialysis
presented with 3 weeks
history of wet gangrene

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on the right 2 toe. He
was septic with a raised
white blood count and

neutrophil leukocytosis.

The pus

from the

wet

gangrene

has tracked

to the sole

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