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Volume 359:e20 October 9, 2008 Number 15

Management of Skin and Soft-Tissue Infection — Polling Results
Sarah P. Hammond, M.D., and Lindsey R. Baden, M.D.

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In early September, we presented a case of a college athlete with a skin and soft-tissue infection in Clinical Decisions,1 an interactive feature designed to assess how readers would manage a clinical problem for which there may be more than one appropriate treatment. Our patient was a healthy 20-year-old college basketball player who presented with a tender erythematous area on the right buttock. He reported that there was no direct trauma to the area. He had traveled throughout the United States for basketball games over the previous several weeks. He noted having subjective low-grade fevers the night before presentation and . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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