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Left leg with dry skin marks 5 days after the accident.
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Five days later, she was presented to the surgical department of a hospital in Bangkok (Figures 1,2).
Left leg with superficial dry necrosis with mild perifocal redness 9 days after the injury.
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At that point, some of the sting marks of the left leg showed superficial dry necrosis with mild perifocal redness (Figure 3).
Left leg after radical debridement of the devitalized tissue with very deep, tunnel-like necrosis 14 after trauma.
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At day 14 after the initial event, deep, tunnel-like necrosis was observed on the left leg (Figure 4).
Left leg after closing of all skin lesions by direct wound closure and by split-thickness skin graft.
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Finally, the ongoing process of deep necrosis resolved and we were able to close all skin lesions of the left leg either by direct wound closure or by split-thickness skin graft (Figure 5).
Right poplit with a delayed deep necrosis 19 days after trauma.
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Unexpectedly, the initially unimpressive dry skin mark in the right poplit developed delayed deep necrosis 19 days after the initial trauma (Figure 6).
Scars of both legs 8 weeks after the split-thickness skin graft of the left leg.
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Figure 7 shows the scars 8 weeks after the split-thickness skin graft of the left leg.