[Diagnostic image (180). A woman with painful erythema after breast -conserving surgery. Erysipelas caused by group B Streptococcus agalactiae].
A 60-year-old woman presented a year after breast-conserving surgery with severe erysipelas caused by a group-B Streptococcus agalactiae. She recovered after treatment with intravenous penicillin.
van den Wildenberg
F J
FJ
Canisius-Wilhelmina Ziekenhuis, afd. Algemene Heelkunde, Nijmegen. vandenwildenberg@freeler.nl
Strobbe
L J
LJ
D001943:Breast Neoplasms / Q000601:surgery; D004886:Erysipelas / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology; D004890:Erythema / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007275:Injections, Intravenous; D015412:Mastectomy, Segmental; D008875:Middle Aged; D010406:Penicillins / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D013292:Streptococcus agalactiae / Q000302:isolation & purification*
D010406:Penicillins