Skin abscess
The following symptoms and complaints may indicate a skin abscess:
Leading symptoms
- Redness and swelling of the skin
- Pain and tightness due to swelling
Associated symptoms
- Fever
- Local lymphadenitis/lymphangitis (lymph node/lymph vessel involvement).
Furuncle
The following symptoms and complaints may indicate a boil:
Leading symptoms
- Severely painful nodular inflammation of a hair follicle.
- Usually occurs spontaneously draining to the outside; rarely the abscess is resorbed
Associated symptoms
- Fever
- Local lymphadenitis/lymphangitis (lymph node/lymph vessel involvement).
Predilection sites (body regions where the disease occurs preferentially).
- Face
- Neck
- Axilla
- Anogenital region
- Thigh
The boil heals scarred.
Carbuncle
The following symptoms and complaints may indicate a carbuncle:
Leading symptoms
- Skin and subcutaneous tissue are often board-hard infiltrated (phlegmonous inflammation).
- Usually comes to multiple (numerous) tissue fusions and without therapy to spontaneous, often sieve-like skin breakthroughs
Associated symptoms
- Fever
- Local lymphadenitis/lymphangitis (lymph node/lymph vessel involvement).
Predilection sites (body regions where the disease occurs preferentially).
- Neck
- Shoulders
- Back
- Hips
- Thighs
