Hand and finger infections

Background

• Pts w/ systemic symptoms due to a hand infection are seriously ill; require inpatient management

DDX

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

• Digital mixoid cyst

See Also

• Hand and Finger Diagnoses

Source

• Tintinalli