(n.) An inflammantion of the cellular or areolar tissue, esp. of that lying immediately beneath the skin.
Example Sentences:
(1) Furthermore echography revealed a collateral subperiosteal edema and a moderate thickening of extraocular muscles and bone periostitis, a massive swelling of muscles and bone defects in subperiosteal abscesses as well as encapsulated abscesses of the orbit and a concomitant retrobulbar neuritis in orbital cellulitis.
(2) Authors demonstrate the possibility of the tuberculous etiology of the cellulitis.
(3) We report a rare case of odontogenic abscess, detected while the patient was in the intensive care unit (ICU), which resulted in sepsis and the patient's death due to mediastinitis, skull osteomyelitis, and deep neck cellulitis.
(4) An unusual and extremely rare displacement of teeth due to trauma, resulting in cervical space cellulitis with probable secondary complications is presented.
(5) Bacterial orbital cellulitis is a feared complication of paranasal sinus infection.
(6) A review of 104 patients with acute orbital cellulitis during the past decade showed that the frequency of hospital admissions for this disease has increased recently.
(7) Cellulitis was rare (1 per 1,900 cases) and endophthalmitis was even rarer (1 per 30,000 cases).
(8) The pathogenesis of both syndromes may be explicable by the fact that soluble parasitic allergens bind to cellules of the respiratory tract and induce hypersensitivity reactions under the influence of reagins.
(9) Similar cellulitis, mainly perivascular, was found in kidneys and anterior mediastinum.
(10) The clinical symptoms and signs were somewhat atypical and included acute suppurative cellulitis in the floor of the mouth plus localized periodontitis involving 36.
(11) Local swelling or haematoma at the injection site occurred in 15 patients (5.9%), cellulitis in 2 (0.8%) and minor contrast reactions in 6 (2.3%).
(12) Three patients developed cellulitis and skin necrosis following fluorescein dye extravasation.
(13) At follow-up or suture removal, patients were evaluated for signs of wound complications (cellulitis, ascending lymphangitis, purulent discharge, or dehiscence).
(14) A child is reported who developed a mycotic aneurysm of the cavernous portion of the internal carotid artery following staphylococcal cellulitis and septicemia.
(15) Three other patients developed cellulitis of the trachea and root of the neck, centered around the tract through the party wall; one patient suffered a fracture of the cervical spine.
(16) The authors believe that the increasing population of patients with depression of cell-mediated immune response will lead to an increase in the frequency with which cryptococcal cellulitis is seen and emphasize that proper evaluation of a patient with presumptive cellulitis includes consideration of fungal, as well as bacterial, etiology.
(17) On the basis of clinical and histopathological criteria they have been classified as follows: 22 cases with gas gangrene (clostridial myonecrosis), 16 cases with anaerobic cellulitis, 20 wound infections, 8 cases of septicemia, 5 of bacteriemia, 1 of tetanus, and 5 other clostridial infections.
(19) One third of the children with cellulitis showed one or several complications.
(20) Other sources of infection were skin, postoperative, intravenous catheter site and cellulitis.
Pelvic
Definition:
(a.) Of, pertaining to, or in the region of, the pelvis; as, pelvic cellulitis.
Example Sentences:
(1) In 49 cases undergoing systemic lymphadenectomy 32 were found to have glandular involvement, of which both aortic and pelvic nodes were positive in 17 cases (53.1%), aortic nodes positive but pelvic negative in six (18.8%), and pelvic nodes positive but aortic negative in nine (28.1%).
(2) These results suggest that the pelvic floor is affected by progressive denervation but descent during straining tends to decrease with advancing age.
(3) On the other hand, the majority of gynecologic patients with pelvic infections are young and healthy.
(4) The authors analyze the biomechanical effectiveness of pelvic osteotomy according to the Chiari method.
(5) 11 patients with a postoperative classification of stage D had additional external beam radiation to the pelvic and paraaortic lymph nodes with shielding of the implanted prostatic region.
(6) By using these methods, it was clearly indicated that these factors such as TDF of rectum, Z-coordinate of weighted geometric center (WGC-Z), the dose of whole pelvic irradiation, history of chemotherapy and Treponema pallidum hemoagglutination test (TPHA) were important for occurrence of rectal complication.
(7) Gains in gait pattern, ease of bracing, and reduced pelvic obliquity were noted.
(8) Earlier recognition of foul-smelling mucoid discharge on the IUD tail, or abnormal bleeding, or both, as a sign of early pelvic infection, followed by removal of the IUD and institution of appropriate antibiotic therapy, might prevent the more serious sequelae of pelvic inflammation.
(9) The patient experienced an uneventful recovery and at the 6-week follow-up, the pelvic organs were within the normal limit and all wounds had healed.
(10) All four active treatment groups also experienced significantly more relief of pelvic-abdominal pain compared with placebo: piroxicam 40 mg for two days followed by three days of 20 mg (p = 0.002), piroxicam 40 mg for one day followed by four days of 20 mg (p = 0.023), piroxicam 20 mg for five days (p = 0.012), and ibuprofen (p = 0.011).
(11) These findings confirm the association between IUD use and pelvic actinomycosis; a review of the literature reveals 395 such cases.
(12) In addition to the well established contra-indications to use, a past history of pelvic inflammatory disease or ectopic pregnancy, promiscuity, nulliparity and age less than 25 are now considered relative contraindications.
(13) Radiological examination provides more accurate indications for plastic surgery of the pelvic floor, influences the operative procedures and permits better evaluation of operative results.
(14) Despite use of surgical adjuvants, pelvic adhesions frequently develop following infertility surgery.
(15) Computed tomography gave excellent visualization of prostate morphology and pelvic anatomic relationships.
(16) Pelvic floor location and mobility did not differ between controls and constipated patients.
(17) The main cause of sterility was complete tubal occlusion in 65.6% of the cases due to a high incidence of pelvic inflammatory diseases in the investigated patients.
(18) Sixteen pregnant patients with pelvic masses detected with ultrasound (US) were studied with magnetic resonance (MR) imaging at 0.35 T. Two patients were in their first trimester, eight in the second, and six in the last.
(19) We reported here controlling recurrent cervical cancer for about one and a half years in one case, and panhysterectomized radioresistant pelvic cancer for at least 3 mo in two cases with this type of cancer chemotherapy.
(20) Naproxen sodium compared favourably with the placebo with respect to pelvic pain and overall discomfort.