A case series highlights the features of severe, necrotic skin wounds among hospitalized adults associated with xylazine exposure, including 9% that involved exposed deep structures such as bone ...

"Little is known about necrosis and how it affects surrounding healthy tissue during wound healing, which is an essential consideration when developing effective methods to treat such injuries ...

The drug can cause severe necrotic wounds that are difficult to treat, can compromise limb viability, and often require surgery. The study reviewed the cases of 55 patients with self-reported ...

The brown recluse spider is proficient at inflicting painful and necrotic wounds. The skin necrosis sometimes can be significant, and require a skin grafting or amputation of the affected skin to ...