AN ERYSIPELAS-LIKE ERUPTION COMPLICATING DERMATOPHYTOSIS

Abstract

The increased amount of attention focused on fungous infections in recent years has given rise to an ever greater number of new studies and observations. It has been interesting to note that in some instances cases of dermatophytosis of the feet are complicated by an eruption which bears great resemblance to erysipelas. The importance of recognizing this condition and differentiating it from true erysipelas is of obvious importance and prompts this report of eight cases. <h3>REPORT OF CASES</h3><h3>Case 1.—</h3> C. W., a man, aged 52, presented by one of us¹at the March 1935 meeting of the New York Dermatological Society, complained of an eruption which had appeared on several occasions over a period of a year. The eruptions were of an erysipelas-like character and usually appeared on the lower part of either leg. Sometimes the two legs were involved at the same time. They were characterized by