Fournier's gangrene secondary to acute peritonitis due to perforated prepyloric ulcer

Abstract

Introduction: Fournier's gangrene is a necrotizing infection of the scrotum and perineum. It has a global incidence of 1.6/100,000 men. Objective: To present a clinical case of Fournier´s gangrene in the course of secondary peritonitis due to a perforated prepyloric ulcer. Clinical Case: White male patient, 67 years old, with a history of being a smoker, who was admitted to the General Surgery Service for abdominal pain and increased volume of the genitals, abdominal pain more localized in the hypogastrium, accompanied by vomiting of contents. food and fever of 38 °C, with chills. Fournier's gangrene secondary to acute peritonitis was diagnosed, which was treated in the emergency services. Conclusions: Fournier's gangrene is one of the urological emergencies that can occur in the course of acute peritonitis due to perforation of a peptic ulcer.

Keywords

• gangrena de fournier
• peritonitis
• úlcera.