cellulite/fever

BACKGROUND The discovery of a jugular tumefaction in an infant evokes several diseases. We report the case of a 4-month-old infant whose jugular cellulite revealed mandibular osteomyelitis. METHODS A 4-month-old boy was referred for hard, hot tumefaction of the right cheek and multiple cervical

BACKGROUND We report a case of group B streptococcal septicemia of digestive origin with secondary bilateral breast dermal-hypodermal localization. METHODS A 71 year-old woman with a past history of bilateral breast cancer treated by conservation therapy was hospitalized because of the sudden

A 10-year-old boy admitted for high-grade fever and pneumonia developed left preseptal and early orbital cellulitis, unresponsive to higher intravenous antibiotics. He received oseltamivir, on testing positive for H1N1 virus on the nasopharyngeal and throat swabs. There was dramatic improvement with

BACKGROUND Streptococcus pyogenes is a well-known cause of a variety of clinical infections including local symptoms such as tonsillopharyngitis, cervical lymphadenitis, otitis media, cellulites, erysipelas, as well as more severe diseases such as scarlet fever, osteomyelitis, necrotizing fasciitis,

A mysterious disease was reported on May 24, 2003, when the Wisconsin Division of Public Health (DPH) received notice of a 3-year-old girl who had been hospitalized in central Wisconsin with cellulites and fever after being bitten by a prairie dog on May 13. The laboratory isolated a gram-negative

OBJECTIVE This work was set out to investigate the effect of saphenous vein preservation during inguinal lymphadenectomy for patients with vulval malignancies. METHODS 64 patients with vulval malignancies were allocated into two groups depending on their clinical stages, with one of them (31

An 88-year-old woman with hypertension, chronic vein insufficiency, and repeated cellulites in the right lower extremity was admitted to our hospital with a new episode of right leg inflammation and edema associated with fever and leukocytosis. Due to unilateral enlargement of the leg and D-simer

BACKGROUND Complications associated to group-A streptococcal pharyingitis include non-suppurative complications such as acute rheumatic fever and glomerulonephritis and suppurative complications such as peritonsillar or retropharyngeal abscess, sinusitis, mastoiditis, otitis media, meningitis, brain

OBJECTIVE To study the etiology, clinical features and treatment outcomes of pediatric Pott's puffy tumor (PPT). METHODS This retrospective study was carried by reviewing medical case record of pediatrics PPT cases admitted to our hospital from January 2010 to august 2011. Data regarding the

OBJECTIVE To report an unusual case of spontaneous late leakage of filtering bleb in a patient with orbital pseudotumor. METHODS Single case report. RESULTS A 53-year-old woman developed spontaneous leakage of bleb in her right eye 23 years after trabeculectomy with application of mitomycin-C (MMC).

Tonsillopharyngitis is an extremely common infection seen in adults and children. Although the symptoms and signs of this disease are usually sufficient to make a diagnosis, it is often difficult to make a distinction between bacterial and viral etiology on clinical grounds alone. The complications

OBJECTIVE The purpose of this retrospective study was to describe a tertiary care center experience with different antibiotic strategies that include cloxacillin (C) in patients with severe septic bursitis (SB). METHODS A severe SB was considered when the patient needed hospitalization and/or

BACKGROUND Infectious diseases caused by Streptococcus pyogenes, a member of the group A Streptococci (GAS) are among the most common life threatening ones. Patients with GAS infections have a poor survival rate. Cellulitis is a severe invasive GAS infection and the most common clinical presentation

Pott's Puffy tumor is a rare clinical entity characterized by subperiosteal abscess associated with osteomyelitis. It is usually seen as a complication of frontal sinusitis or trauma predominantly in the adolescent age group. Pott's Puffy tumor can be associated with cortical vein thrombosis,

Pseudomonas aeruginosa is a common causative agent of septicemia in compromised host and the entry site of organism is most commonly the respiratory and genitourinary tract. P. aeruginosa septicemia is often associated with vesicular or pustular skin lesions, subcutaneous nodules, deep abscess,