Phlegmon of the Foot As A Camel Bite Complication

• Authors: Bartosz Skonieczny , Wojciech Skonieczny
• Languages of publication: EN

Abstracts

EN

The great popularity of foreign excursions and travel in exotic directions, as well as increasing popularity of breeding exotic animals at home, is evidence that in daily practice one may observe injuries inflicted by animals atypically occurring in Poland.The study presented and described a rare case of a patient attacked by a camel living in an agro-tourism farm in our country. Thanks to the combination of surgical and conservative treatment complete wound healing was observed, including the skin grafts, with preserved motor function of the foot.

Keywords

EN

camel; bite wound; injury; skin graft

• Publisher: De Gruyter Open
• Journal: Polish Journal of Surgery
• Year: 2015
• Volume: 86
• Issue: 10
• Pages: 486-489

Dates

received

24 - 7 - 2013

online

3 - 2 - 2015

Contributors

author

Bartosz Skonieczny

• Department of General Surgery, Specialist Hospital in Elblag Ordynator: lek.

author

Wojciech Skonieczny

• Department of General Surgery, Specialist Hospital in Elblag Ordynator: lek.

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Identifiers

DOI

10.2478/pjs-2014-0086