ANAEROBIC CELLULITIS.

Norplant™ Cellulitis

A 23-year-old woman presented to her gynecologist’s ofrice with a complaint of redness and tenderness at the site of her Norplan(TM, inserted 2 years prior. One week prior to presentation she had lacerated her fingertip while diving in the Bahamas (Fig. 1). Examination revealed erythema and tenderness overlying the NorplantTM site (Fig. 2). A course of orally administered trimethoprim/sulfameth...

Facial Cellulitis

Orbital cellulitis.

Forty-nine cases of orbital cellulitis were reviewed. The average age of patients at presentation was 31 years. The onset of symptoms varied from seven days or less in 28 patients, one to four weeks in 17 patients, and more than four weeks in four patients. The leucocyte count, available in 33 patients, was greater than 10 X 10(9)/l in only nine. Abnormal sinuses were noted radiographically in ...

Erythromelalgia misdiagnosed as cellulitis.

This case report examines the presentation of a patient with erythromelalgia that was misdiagnosed as cellulitis on several prior occasions. The presentation of bilateral acral edema and erythema, especially in the setting of myeloproliferative and/or connective tissue diseases, should alert the physician to the possibility of alternate diagnoses, including erythromelalgia. Treatments target sy...

Orbital and Preseptal Cellulitis

Extension of an infection from the periorbital structures. This is the most common route. Infections which may breach the orbital septum and extend in this way include the paranasal sinuses, especially ethmoid sinusitis, the face, the globe, the lacrimal sac and dental infection via intermediary maxillary sinusitis. Extension of preseptal cellulitis, particularly in young children in whom the o...