Erysipelas bullosum and thrombophlebitis- a case report

Erysipelas is an acute inflammatory disease with rapis beginning, clinically manifested with skin redness and swelling, cleary limited from the surrounding healty skin to which they are spreading as ‘’tongues’’, and accompanied with general symptoms- elevated body temperature, fever, weakness, headache and vomiting. The disease is caused by beta hemolytic streptococcus group a, which throuth the entry post enters the skin and is spreading by lymphatic pathway. Possible complications of this disease are lymphangitisand lymhadenitis, thrombophlebitis, phlegmon and elephantiasis.