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EXOGENOUS AGENTS
Drug abuse – edema secondary to skin popping, infection,
scarring
L
-tryptophan-induced eosinophilic fasciitis
Methysergide-induced retroperitoneal fibrosis
Podoconiosis – lymphedema due to silica dust in soil acquired
by walking barefoot 
Rook p.2282, 1998, Sixth Edition
Post-Greenfield or other inferior vena cava filter
INFECTIONS AND INFESTATIONS
Cat scratch fever
Chromomycosis
Dermatophyte infection
Ebola virus 
Tyring p.424, 2002
Erysipelas – chronic, recurrent
Filariasis – 
Wuchereria bancrofti, Brugia malayi, Brugia timori;
mosquito vector – first sign is edema, pain, and erythema of
arms, legs, or scrotum; chronically lower leg edema and
elephantiasis develop 
Dermatol Clin 7:313–321, 1989
Kala-azar (visceral leishmaniasis) – 
Leishmania
donovani – pedal edema; primary ulcer; hyperpigmented skin
of face, hands, feet abdomen 
Rook p.1419, 1998, Sixth Edition
Leprosy – lepromatous leprosy – edema of legs and ankles
Rook p.1224, 1998, Sixth Edition
Lymphogranuloma venereum – genital lymphedema leading to
vulvar elephantiasis or ‘saxaphone penis’; inguinal adenitis with
abscess formation and draining chronic sinus tracts; rectal
syndrome in women with pelvic adenopathy, periproctitis with
rectal stricture and fistulae; esthiomene – scarring and fistulae
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of the buttocks and thighs with elephantiasic lymphedema of the
vulva; lymphatics may develop abscesses which drain and form
ulcers 
Int J Dermatol 15:26–33, 1976
Meningococcemia – cellulitis with edema, erythema, and pain
Clin Inf Dis 21:1023–1025, 1995
Mycobacterium tuberculosis – lupus vulgaris; tuberculous node
infection 
Br J Surg 51:101–110, 1964
Onchocerciasis – edema of leg, face, arm, and scrotum 
JAAD
45:435–437, 2001; Int J Derm 22:182, 1983
Pyomyositis – non-erythematous calf edema;
Staphylococcus
aureus, streptococcal species; Cryptococcus neoformans Clin
Inf Dis 32:1104–1107, 2001
Rattlesnake bite 
Pediatr Emerg Care 10:30–33, 1994
Toxocariasis – lymphedema as presenting sign 
Infection
23:389–390, 1995
Trichinosis 
Presse Med 24:1317, 1995