[Cellulitis. Histopathologic and histochemical study of 100 cases]

An analysis of the bibliographical background is made. A study of 100 cases of cellulitis from the histopathologic and histochemical features is performed. The biopsies were done on patients of the feminine sex as a start of a whole treatment. It is inferred that in cellulitis pathologic, metabolic, hormonal and may be immunological factors, are linked to the malfunction of the vascular changes (micro-pathological angiopathy) in the form of thickening of the walls of capillaries and arterioles, that would generate a muco-edema in the dermo-hypodermic tissues. The cellulitis owing to its typical histological characteristics might be considered as a dystrophic capillary connective mucoidotic edema predominant in the skin of the root of the lower limbs.