Eschar - An important Clinical Clue in Febrile illness in Rural Setting
Journal Title: Journal of Chalmeda AnandRao Institute of Medical Sciences - Year 2017, Vol 13, Issue 1
Abstract
A 46 year old man presented with acute febrile illness of 7 days duration, he had been taking treat-ment on lines of enteric fever with multiple antibiotics, on examination was found to have a papular lesion on the back of the hand (axillary region), with central blacked crust, an eschar, and surrounding erythema, on further questioning he revealed that as the lesion didn’t cause any pain or itching, and moreover being on posterior part of the body, he couldn’t discover it, and didn’t attribute the fever as a consequence to that lesion.
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Ajay Kumar Khandal
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