Pretibial fever

Pretitbial fever (forte briggs) is one of the types of nonspecific infectious fevers that develops during epidemic outbreaks of malaria. It is characterized by fever, myalgia, arthralgia and mainly damage to the plantar surface of the feet. The causative agent of the disease is Plasmodium leprosy, which parasitizes the human intestine. This is a fairly rare pathology, which is most often caused by infection with sleepy fever. The incubation period lasts several weeks, and the course of the disease is severe. The disease begins acutely, the temperature rises to 38 ° C-40 ° C, and

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Pretibia fever (lat. febris praetibia) is an acute, short-term inflammation of the tibia.

Pain in the joint area is often accompanied by the symptom “symptom of rickets” - pain occurs when extending the foot and toes. A limited fold of skin forms on the inner surface of the foot, which becomes hyperemic or cyanotic and begins to peel off along the flexor side of the leg (Unna's symptom). Sometimes there is pronounced erythema of the skin of the anterior surface of the thigh and lower leg. The skin is hot to the touch, the general condition of the patient is noted as in a normal ARVI. Body temperature can be low-grade; in children, hyperthermia up to 39 °C is more common.[1][2]

Painful inflammation of the knee joint is called tarsal arthritis with splanchnoic syndrome, which can be accompanied by fever, meningitis and lymphadenopathy, which can later become chronic. This pathology is syphilitic if the diagnosis is confirmed by laboratory tests.