The Effect of Histopathologic Analysis and Tissue Cultures on Inpatient Management of Cellulitis and Pseudocellulitis

Inclusion Criteria

• •admitted inpatient to The Ohio State University Wexner Medical Center Internal Medicine ward with cellulitis-like symptoms, including but not limited to the following: tenderness, redness, swelling, expansive lesion.
• •Affecting one or more extremities
• •are at least 90 days post any associated operation of the extremity
• •are above the age of 18
• •Participants will be patients with cellulitis or pseudocellulitis.
• •Patients who have recurrent cellulitis will be eligible for enrollment into the study, but only once.