[Necrotizing fasciitis--a pathophysiological model].

Real progress in the treatment of necrotizing fasciitis depends on correct and early diagnosis. On the basis of our own experience in treatment of 15 patients with necrotising fasciitis and on information from the literature, we sketched out a pathophysiology model of this sickness. This model centres around local thromboembolic ischemia which makes development of a less invasive radiological diagnosis possible.