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Fournier’s gangrene in an obese female in third trimester of pregnancy

Saqer Althunayyan and Evangelos Karamitosos
Saudi Medical Journal April 2018, 39 (4) 415-418; DOI: https://doi.org/10.15537/smj.2018.4.21780
Saqer Althunayyan
From the Department of Accident and Trauma (Althunayyan), Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz College for Emergency Medical Services, King Saud University, and from the Department of General Surgery (Karamitosos), Aliman General Hospital, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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Evangelos Karamitosos
From the Department of Accident and Trauma (Althunayyan), Prince Sultan bin Abdulaziz College for Emergency Medical Services, King Saud University, and from the Department of General Surgery (Karamitosos), Aliman General Hospital, Ministry of Health, Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia
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