Hand and finger infections
Background
- Patients with systemic symptoms due to a hand infection are seriously ill and require inpatient management
Differential Diagnosis
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
Hand and Finger Infections Images
Hand cellulitis (from cat bite)
Lymphocutaneous sporotrichosis
