Bacillary Angiomatosis Mimicking Pyogenic Granuloma

Bacillary angiomatosis (BA) is an angioproliferative disease caused by Bartonella species. It manifests as nodules or papules in immunocompromised patients. Oral lesions are very rare, unlike cutaneous lesions, and histopathology plays a vital role in distinguishing these lesions from other similar...

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Autores principales: A, Ramesh Kumar, K, Nitya, Krishnan, Raj Kumar, Dinesh, Snehesh, R, Ramya
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10147494/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37123686
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36844
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description Bacillary angiomatosis (BA) is an angioproliferative disease caused by Bartonella species. It manifests as nodules or papules in immunocompromised patients. Oral lesions are very rare, unlike cutaneous lesions, and histopathology plays a vital role in distinguishing these lesions from other similar ones. Treatment mainly comprises macrolides erythromycin, clarithromycin, or doxycycline.
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spelling pubmed-101474942023-04-29 Bacillary Angiomatosis Mimicking Pyogenic Granuloma A, Ramesh Kumar K, Nitya Krishnan, Raj Kumar Dinesh, Snehesh R, Ramya Cureus Dermatology Bacillary angiomatosis (BA) is an angioproliferative disease caused by Bartonella species. It manifests as nodules or papules in immunocompromised patients. Oral lesions are very rare, unlike cutaneous lesions, and histopathology plays a vital role in distinguishing these lesions from other similar ones. Treatment mainly comprises macrolides erythromycin, clarithromycin, or doxycycline. Cureus 2023-03-29 /pmc/articles/PMC10147494/ /pubmed/37123686 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36844 Text en Copyright © 2023, A et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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title Bacillary Angiomatosis Mimicking Pyogenic Granuloma
title_full Bacillary Angiomatosis Mimicking Pyogenic Granuloma
title_fullStr Bacillary Angiomatosis Mimicking Pyogenic Granuloma
title_full_unstemmed Bacillary Angiomatosis Mimicking Pyogenic Granuloma
title_short Bacillary Angiomatosis Mimicking Pyogenic Granuloma
title_sort bacillary angiomatosis mimicking pyogenic granuloma
topic Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10147494/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/37123686
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.36844
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