Cellulitis and skin abscesses are both due to bacterial infections. They may develop separately or together, and they need different treatments. Your skin is home to about 1,000 different species of ...

Uncomplicated skin abscesses are common, yet the appropriate management of the condition in the era of community-associated methicillin-resistant Staphylococcus aureus (MRSA) is unclear. We conducted ...

Studies evaluating surgical-site infection have had conflicting results with respect to the use of alcohol solutions containing iodine povacrylex or chlorhexidine gluconate as skin antisepsis before ...

This is a picture of MRSA (METHICILLIN RESISTANT STAPHYLOCOCCUS AUREUS). It occured as a complication 2 years after cosmetic plastic surgery for a bust reduction. The patients wounds didn’t heal and ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . Intra-incisional metaphyseal pins may be safe for use in patients undergoing robotic-assisted TKA. The ...

Wound dehiscence is a surgical complication where an incision reopens either internally or externally. Also known as wound breakdown, wound disruption, or wound separation, these terms describe when a ...