Recalcitrant Cellulitis

Use of an 800-nm pulsed-diode laser in the treatment of recalcitrant dissecting cellulitis of the scalp.

A 35-year-old black man with adult-onset diabetes mellitus presented to our clinics in July 1999 with a 2-year history of alopecia and a boggy scalp with cysts and pustules. He had been previously treated with 40 mg daily of isotretinoin for 3 months (Accutane; Roche Laboratories Inc, Nutley, NJ) and 25 mg daily of dapsone for 2 months with minimal improvement. Oral antibiotic administration wa...

Recalcitrant bubbles

We demonstrate that thermocapillary forces may drive bubbles against liquid flow in 'anomalous' mixtures. Unlike 'ordinary' liquids, in which bubbles migrate towards higher temperatures, we have observed vapour bubbles migrating towards lower temperatures, therefore against the flow. This unusual behaviour may be explained by the temperature dependence of surface tension of these binary mixture...

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 ...