Old pelvic adhesions and exudations as a result of pelvic cellulitis or peritonitis are amenable to galvanization after hot douches, sitz baths, and other discussives have failed to excite absorption.
The treatment of a recent case of pelvic cellulitis must be energetically antiseptic.
In surgical operations and puerperal conditions in which infection has been positively excluded, by careful antiseptic measures, pelvic cellulitis is impossible.
Pelvic cellulitis is oftener found in childbirth, premature labor and abortion, for the reason that it is a wound infection, and the female organism, is always more or less wounded under these circumstances.
The wound was explored at the time of the injury and some fragments of bone removed; considerable cellulitis supervened, and the fuse was only discovered some days later when the patient came under the care of Sir W.
At the post-mortem examination the peritoneum was found intact and unaltered, but there was extensive pelvic cellulitis around the bladder, a large slough and some pus lying in the cavum Retzii.
The tendency of simple wounds such as are above described to run an aseptic course was very marked, and, given satisfactory conditions, deep suppuration and cellulitis were distinctly rare.
On the second day swelling of the neck due to early cellulitis developed, especially on the left side, and signs of laryngeal obstruction became prominent.
Cellulitis beneath the aponeurosis from mixed infection is a dangerous complication.
When the œsophagus is perforated, diffuse cellulitis of the neck or of the posterior mediastinum may ensue.
Among the other effects of dental caries may be mentioned localised necrosis of the alveolar margin, cellulitis of the neck, and enlargement of the cervical lymph glands.
The main vessels may become thrombosed or eroded--particularly when the cellulitis is associated with scarlet fever--and in the latter case copious hæmorrhage may follow incision of the abscess.
In cellulitis of the orbit, intra-orbital tumour, gumma and aneurysm in the region of the cavernous sinus, also, the optic nerve may be implicated.
They are occasionally associated with acute cellulitis of the scalp.
With this, localized areas of necrosis or abscesses may occur, giving rise to painful swellings on the head, and usually are accompanied by cellulitis of the scalp, pyrexia, and intense headaches.
In very weakly children suffering from a virulent form of disease the healing of the wound may be slow, and septic conditions are apt to arise ending in cellulitis of the neck or even typical erysipelas.
When this method is adopted the skin should be rendered antiseptic, otherwise troublesome abscesses and cellulitis will arise in the subcutaneous tissue at the situation where the saline solution has been injected.
It usually subsides under hot fomentations, but suppuration and even cellulitisof the orbit have been known to occur.
Sepsis may occur from absorption through a laceration if asepsis has not been maintained: it may lead to an attack of pelvic cellulitis or even septicæmia.
From infection of such wounds of the scalp abscess or diffuse cellulitis of the scalp may develop as well as erysipelas.
Wounds of the soft parts, if infected, may lead to cellulitis and phlegmonous inflammation, which may result in much injury.
In either case peri-rectal or peri-anal cellulitis will be induced.
Pelvic cellulitis may also be a cause, though twenty or thirty cases in succession may run a favorable course with no secondary lesions; it is still recognized as one of the occasional causes of peritonitis.
The absence of the objective signs of cellulitis would then contribute to prove that the case had been one in which the peritoneum had been in the main affected.
In a few cases the cellulitismounts above Poupart's ligament, between the peritoneum and the abdominal wall.
Cellulitis is excited by their presence, and the lymphatic glands become inflamed and enlarged.
Infective forms of cellulitis are also frequently met with in the loose, sub-peritoneal tissue of the pelvis.
Between the apex of the left lung and the median line the tissues of the neck, dissected upward, are found indurated, yellow, and giving an offensive odor, showing that the cervical cellulitis had extended downward farther than usual.
The case was received for amputation in the second week, when a grave degree of infection extended in a cellulitis to the elbow.
The wound was so heavily infected, that a cellulitis advanced to the shoulder and to the wrist to such extent that the arm was marked by eminent surgical opinion for amputation.
The occurrence of septicæmia is the most serious risk, and it is in cases of diffuse suppurative cellulitis that this form of blood-poisoning assumes its most aggravated forms.
Streptococci in Pus from case of Diffuse Cellulitis 26 4.
In the region of the ankle cellulitis is not common; but around the knee it frequently occurs in relation to the prepatellar bursa and to the popliteal lymph glands, and may endanger the knee-joint.
In this variety the infection manifests itself as a cellulitis of the pulp of the finger (Fig.
One or more abscesses may form along the course of the vessels, or a spreading cellulitis may supervene.
Cellulitis of the axilla may originate in suppuration in the lymph glands, following an infected wound of the hand, or it may spread from a septic wound on the chest wall or in the neck.
It is most frequently met with in cellulitis or phlegmonous erysipelas, but there are a great many other causes.
It is a form of cellulitisrequiring drainage and disinfection.
The part is swollen and tender upon pressure, and if suppuration occurs the pain is severe, and cellulitis is apt to develop, involving the surrounding parts, or the joint may be involved, caries of the bones of the articulation resulting.
If there is considerable inflammation, accompanied by markedcellulitis and pain, the milder wet dressings, such as boric acid or Thiersch are indicated.
Cellulitis is usually a result of infection not only with streptococci, but also with other pyogenic cocci.
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