Superficial lymphangitis may extend a short distance up the forearm.
Here, too, infection takes place through a broken cutaneous surface, and leads to a superficial lymphangitis with nodular thickening of the lymphatics (farcy buds).
Septic lymphangitis is commonly met with in those who, from the nature of their occupation, handle infective material.
It may become purulent as a result of infection, and this may be the starting-point of lymphangitis or cellulitis.
The disease is usually ushered in with fever, and signs of lymphangitis in the part affected.
The patient gives a history of feverish attacks of the nature of lymphangitis during which the swelling becomes painful and tender.
The affected part may be cold or hot, and it may show the red lines of lymphangitis and the swelling of the adjacent lymphatic glands.
Phlegmonous, diffused; with lymphangitis and pyæmia (lymphatic form of peritonitis).
Lymphangitis and adenopathy are common complications of erysipelas, the former betrayed in thickened and often knotted cords, which may be felt radiating from involved areas to neighboring glands.
When a wound becomes septic, red lines of lymphangitis are seen about it and there is enlargement of the related lymphatic glands.
Lymphangitis and venous thrombosis are not of infrequent occurrence in connection with varicose ulcers, while embolism and even pyemia are sometimes in evidence.
The trite phrase that "the tissues are bathed in lymph" should make clear the reason for the frequent occurrence of infectious lymphangitis and lymphadenitis.
A non-infectious type of lymphangitis is frequently seen in the heavy draft breeds of horses and in such cases one or both hind legs are involved--it is very seldom that the thoracic limbs become so affected.
However, one may observe in some instances an acute lymphangitis which affects the pelvic limbs of horses and no evidence of infection exists.
Lymphangitis is most frequently occasioned by the introduction of septic material into the tissues; consequently, infectious lymphangitis is more frequently observed than the non-infectious type.
In such instances lymph vessels participate in the disturbance, and the condition then becomes one wherein lymphangitis is the predominant disturbing element.
A sequel of chronic lymphangitis is a condition known as elephantiasis.
Law[3] refers to this ailment as "Acute Lymphangitis of Plethora in Horse.
Consequently, lymphangitis may be considered as infectious and non-infectious.
This type of lymphangitisis associated with, or the result of, a derangement of digestion.
Excluding glanders, in the majority of instances, lymphangitis in the horse, such as frequently affects the hind legs, is due to the local introduction of infectious material into the tissues as a result of wounds.
The extent of the involvement and the intensity of the affection vary materially in different cases and a chroniclymphangitis may succeed the acute attacks and finally in some instances, elephantiasis results.
By giving careful attention to the regimen and providing regular exercise for susceptible subjects, this type of lymphangitis is often forestalled.
Nail punctures resulting in infection frequently cause an infectious lymphangitis and a marked and painful swelling of the legs supervenes.
A lymphangitis ran all the way up the right thigh from one of the sores, with a corresponding hyperpyrexia.
Surgical intervention was indicated from the evidence of spinal compression at a definite level, but the lymphangitis grew worse.
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