Clinical case of Fournier’s gangrene in a patient with adenocarcinoma

Abstract

The article describes a clinical case of Fournier’s gangrene in a 65-year-old man with rectal mucinous adenocarcinoma. Given the presence of a malignant neoplasm, elderly age and the general severity of the patient’s condition, the widest empirical antibiotic therapy was prescribed, the spectrum of which overlapped the most probable pathogens. The patient was discharged from the hospital on the 32nd day. The article discusses the rational tactics of antimicrobial therapy in such difficult cases for treatment.