A RARE CASE OF GASTRIC GANGRENE - A CASE REPORT

Gastric gangrene is a rare and fatal clinical entity in which a part or whole of the stomach becomes gangrenous necessitating partial or total gastrectomy and is associated with high mortality . Ours is a patient of 60 years who had gastric perforation and subsequently developed gastric gangrene on the 4 th POD. Gastric gangrene may be due to variety of causes like chemical injuries, necrobiotic infections, mechanical causes ,vascular causes. Only 8 cases has been reported till now. This case is presented for its rarity and for having clinical suspicion of this condition in the diagnosis of an acute abdomen