Year: 2005
Type: article
Abstract: To the Editor: Acute lymphangitis is caused most often by Streptococcus pyogenes and occasionally by a range of other bacteria.1 We describe a patient in whom acute lymphangitis developed, with no evidence of infection. The patient was a 27-year-old medical student who was working in the laboratory and was resuspending membranes isolated from lysed Escherichia coli when he accidentally stabbed his left index finger with a contaminated needle. Within an hour, he noted pain and swelling in his left hand. Over the next several hours, tenderness in his left arm and axilla developed, and then red streaks extending from the . . .
Source: New England Journal of Medicine
Authors: Neeraj K. Surana, Joseph W. St. Geme
Language: English
Field: Medicine
Domain: Health Sciences
Open Access status: bronze
OpenAlex ID: W2340715752