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Patients arrived with gangrenous foot wounds that harried providers elsewhere brushed off as athlete’s foot.

From Los Angeles Times Jun. 14, 2026

The designation is intended to attract more research and funding for curbing the disease, also known as cancrum oris and gangrenous stomatitis.

From Science Magazine Dec. 20, 2023

There’s the round-the-clock monitoring of sugar levels; the constant, life-sustaining insulin injections; and the potential threats from diabetes’ diabolical complications: heart disease, blindness, kidney damage and the possibility of losing a gangrenous limb to amputation.

From New York Times Aug. 9, 2022

When we joined the volunteers for a day, she was quick to check the lower leg of an evacuee with a blackened, gangrenous wound.

From BBC Jun. 7, 2022

He was brought here from Gettysburg with serious wounds which became gangrenous before his arrival.

From "Across Five Aprils" by Irene Hunt




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