DOI: 10.36347/sasjs

Pages: 225-227

To study and share our experience in management of fournier’s gangrene.A retrospective analysis was carried out from May 2002 to April 2014 in a single surgical unit of Department of Surgery of St John’s medical college, Bangalore, India. 41 patients were studied during this period. 56% of the patients with fournier’s gangrene had diabetes mellitus. Scrotum alone was affected in 9 patients (22%). Eighteen patients (44%) had debridement once. All those patients who underwent debridement only once had the disease limited to scrotum. E.coli being the commonest organism. Mortality rate in this study was 4.9%. Fournier’s gangrene is a life threatening condition that commonly presents to general surgeons as an emergency. Early diagnosis is essential and aggressive debridement is the keystone in the management of fournier’s gangrene.