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  2. Pressure ulcer - Wikipedia

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    Pressure ulcers can trigger other ailments, cause considerable suffering, and can be expensive to treat. Some complications include autonomic dysreflexia, bladder distension, bone infection, pyarthrosis, sepsis, amyloidosis, anemia, urethral fistula, gangrene and very rarely malignant transformation (Marjolin's ulcer – secondary carcinomas in chronic wounds).

  3. Perianal cellulitis - Wikipedia

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    Perianal cellulitis, also known as perianitis or perianal streptococcal dermatitis, is a bacterial infection affecting the lower layers of the skin around the anus. [1] [2] [3] It presents as bright redness in the skin and can be accompanied by pain, difficulty defecating, itching, and bleeding.

  4. Cellulitis - Wikipedia

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    The elderly and those with a weakened immune system are especially vulnerable to contracting cellulitis. [ citation needed ] Diabetics are more susceptible to cellulitis than the general population because of impairment of the immune system; they are especially prone to cellulitis in the feet, because the disease causes impairment of blood ...

  5. Tinea cruris - Wikipedia

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    Tinea cruris (TC), also known as jock itch, is a common type of contagious, superficial fungal infection of the groin and buttocks region, which occurs predominantly but not exclusively in men and in hot-humid climates. [3] [4] Typically, over the upper inner thighs, there is an intensely itchy red raised rash with a scaly well-defined curved ...

  6. Pilonidal disease - Wikipedia

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    Pilonidal disease is a type of skin infection which typically occurs as a cyst between the cheeks of the buttocks and often at the upper end. [1] [3] Symptoms may include pain, swelling, and redness. [1] There may also be drainage of fluid, but rarely a fever. [1] [2]

  7. Ulcer (dermatology) - Wikipedia

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    Venous leg ulcers due to impaired circulation or a blood flow disorder are more common in the elderly. Rare causes of skin ulcers include pyoderma gangraenosum, lesions caused by Crohn's disease or ulcerative colitis, granulomatosis with polyangiitis, morbus Behçet and infections that are usually seen in those who are immunocompromised, for ...

  8. Osteitis pubis - Wikipedia

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    Osteitis pubis is a noninfectious inflammation of the pubis symphysis (also known as the pubic symphysis, symphysis pubis, or symphysis pubica), causing varying degrees of lower abdominal and pelvic pain.

  9. Piriformis syndrome - Wikipedia

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    Piriformis syndrome is often left undiagnosed and mistaken with other pains due to similar symptoms with back pain, quadriceps pain, lower leg pain, and buttock pain. These symptoms include tenderness, tingling and numbness initiating in low back and buttock area and then radiating down to the thigh and to the leg. [72]