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Revision as of 05:42, 21 March 2014
Background
- Pts w/ systemic symptoms due to a hand infection are seriously ill and require inpatient management
DDX
Hand and finger infections
- Bed bugs
- Closed fist infection (Fight Bite)
- Hand cellulitis
- Hand deep space infection
- Hand-foot-and-mouth disease
- Herpetic whitlow
- Felon
- Flexor tenosynovitis
- Paronychia
- Scabies
- Sporotrichosis
Look-Alikes
See Also
Source
- Tintinalli