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Wednesday, January 13, 2010

Bilateral leg 'cellulitis'

A number of consults for this clinical entity today makes me want to provide you with this excelllent review of the mimickers of cellulitils.... The most common mimicker I see is venous stasis dermatitis, often bilateral, in the obese patient with heart failure.
Posted by tcl at 8:15 AM

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