In a patient with recurrent cellulitis of the thigh, can the punctum of a follicular cyst in the buttock serve as a portal of entry for the causative bacteria? There appears to be no other ...

Recurrent cellulitis patients need to avoid trauma or skin injuries to the legs and feet. This is especially true for patients with diabetic neuropathy who may have lost feeling in the peripheral ...

Compared with no treatment or placebo, antibiotic prophylaxis decreased the cellulitis incidence rate (RR, 0.44; 95% CI, 0.22 to 0.89) and significantly decreased the rate until the next episode ...

DEAR DR. DONOHUE: I am a 72-year-old woman and have had cellulitis for what seems like forever. Last September, I clipped my toenails and clipped part of my skin with the nail. The next morning ...

In a single-center, non-blinded trial, 41 patients received leg compression therapy plus education on cellulitis prevention, whereas a control group of 43 people received education alone.

In patients with recurrent cellulitis, penicillin prevented subsequent attacks during prophylaxis, but the effect diminished progressively after the antibiotic was stopped, according to a double ...

Ms. P, a 34-year-old of Hispanic descent, was admitted through the emergency department with complaints of recurrent left buttock pain and swelling and a subjective report of fever.

Kim S. Thomas, PhD, from the University of Nottingham in the United Kingdom, and colleagues randomly assigned 274 patients with ≥2 episodes of cellulitis of the leg to receive placebo or 250mg ...

Cellulitis is a bacterial infection that occurs in the deep layers of the skin, usually making the skin around the infection red, swollen and tender to the touch.

In a single-center, randomized, unblinded trial involving 84 participants with chronic edema of the leg and recurrent cellulitis, the incidences of cellulitis and hospitalizations ...