Skin infection
A skin infection can be differentiated according to the depth of the infection into the skin layers (epidermis, dermis and subcutaneous tissue).
- Impetigo: high contagious superficial skin infection most common among children age 2–6 years.
- Erysipela: superficial skin infection with a clear line of demarcation between involved and uninvolved tissue and raised lesions above the level of the surrounding skin; affects the epidermis and upper dermis. [1]
- Cellulitis: skin infection that involves the deeper dermis and the subcutaneous fat. Can be classified in non-purulent and purulent cellulitis. [1]
- Non-purulent cellulitis: with no purulent drainage or exudate and no associated abscess.
- Purulent cellulitis: associated with purulent drainage or exudate in the absence of a drainable abscess.
Skin Appendage Infection
- Furuncle: infection of the hair follicles, thus resulting in the localized accumulation of pus and dead tissue.
- Carbuncle: an abscess, larger than a boil, usually with one or more openings draining pus onto the skin.
References
- ↑ 1.0 1.1 Dennis L. Stevens, Alan L. Bisno, Henry F. Chambers, E. Dale Everett, Patchen Dellinger, Ellie J. C. Goldstein, Sherwood L. Gorbach, Jan V. Hirschmann, Edward L. Kaplan, Jose G. Montoya & James C. Wade (2005). "Practice guidelines for the diagnosis and management of skin and soft-tissue infections". Clinical infectious diseases : an official publication of the Infectious Diseases Society of America. 41 (10): 1373–1406. doi:10.1086/497143. PMID 16231249. Unknown parameter
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