Teenager who fell yesterday on a large horseweed plant sustaining a large right thigh laceration which was sutured up. She now presents with right thigh swelling and pain and fever.

Musculoskeletal
Radiograph and MRI of necrotizing fasciitis
AP radiograph of the right hip (left) shows subcutaneous air diffusely throughout the right thigh. Coronal (above right) and axial (below right) T2 MRI without contrast of the right thigh shows thickened fascia with interfascial fluid collections in the lateral and medial aspects of the right thigh.

The diagnosis was necrotizing fasciitis.

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