Meleney, Frank L. (1889-1963)

Born 1889.

Professor of Clinical Surgery, Columbia University, New York.

Described;

Meleney's gangrene

Abdominal or chest wall ulcerative necrosis. Often following an operation for infection. May occur elsewhere in a patient with ulcerative colitis.

There is a rapidly progressive cellulitis which progresses to central necrosis.