| Título: | Cutaneous Curvularia infection in a neutropenic patient |
| Autores: |
Charles F. Knapp Veronica T. Tucci Ramon L. Sandin John N. Greene |
| Fecha: | 2010-01-26 |
| Publicador: | Asian biomedicine: research reviews and news |
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| Tema: | No aplica |
| Descripción: | p class="MsoNormal"span style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: "Background: Cutaneous Curvularia is a rare fungal infection which presents itself as erythematous, non-tender, non-pruritic, ulcerative lesions. To the best of our knowledge, only a few cases reported in the literature have occurred in immunocompromised and/or neutropenic patients, none of which have been published within the past five years./span/pspan style="font-size: 10.0pt; font-family: "Objective: We report the case of a 53-year-old man diagnosed with diffuse large B cell non-Hodgkin’s lymphoma and associated neutropenia who developed several erythematous macular lesions with central excoriations and crusting on his bilateral anterior tibiae, and whose fungal culture was positive for Curvularia sp./span |
| Idioma: | No aplica |