Life-threatening lesions: Tender jaw and thigh abscesses
A 60-year-old Caucasian man visited an urgent-care center with acutely tender abscesses on the left jaw and left upper thigh. The physician lanced the pus-filled abscesses to obtain a specimen for culture, then cleaned and packed the area to prevent reinfection of the wound. The cultures were sent to a reference lab for identification and…
