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Skin mucormycosis presenting as an erythema-nodosum-like rash in a renal transplant recipient: a case report

INTRODUCTION: Cutaneous mucormycosis is a rare entity related to kidney transplantation. It usually presents with ecthyma-like lesions and black necrotic cellulitis. We report an unusual case of primary cutaneous mucormycosis presenting as erythema-nodosum-like lesions in a woman who had received a...

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Autores principales: Nouri-Majalan, Nader, Moghimi, Mansour
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: BioMed Central 2008
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2365968/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18423044
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-112
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description INTRODUCTION: Cutaneous mucormycosis is a rare entity related to kidney transplantation. It usually presents with ecthyma-like lesions and black necrotic cellulitis. We report an unusual case of primary cutaneous mucormycosis presenting as erythema-nodosum-like lesions in a woman who had received a renal transplant. CASE PRESENTATION: A 49-year-old woman with diabetes received a living-unrelated kidney transplant. Her clinical course was uneventful for the first six months after transplantation. She then developed multiple, painful, erythema-nodosum-like lesions on her right leg and thigh following an episode of minor trauma. Mucormycosis was diagnosed by skin biopsy. Microscopic examination also showed panniculitis. The patient was treated successfully with amphotericin B and surgical resection. To our knowledge, this is the first description of primary cutaneous mucormycosis with erythema-nodosum-like lesions and panniculitis after renal transplantation. CONCLUSION: Cutaneous mucormycosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis when a kidney transplant recipient develops erythema-nodosum-like lesions with panniculitis.
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spelling pubmed-23659682008-05-03 Skin mucormycosis presenting as an erythema-nodosum-like rash in a renal transplant recipient: a case report Nouri-Majalan, Nader Moghimi, Mansour J Med Case Reports Case Report INTRODUCTION: Cutaneous mucormycosis is a rare entity related to kidney transplantation. It usually presents with ecthyma-like lesions and black necrotic cellulitis. We report an unusual case of primary cutaneous mucormycosis presenting as erythema-nodosum-like lesions in a woman who had received a renal transplant. CASE PRESENTATION: A 49-year-old woman with diabetes received a living-unrelated kidney transplant. Her clinical course was uneventful for the first six months after transplantation. She then developed multiple, painful, erythema-nodosum-like lesions on her right leg and thigh following an episode of minor trauma. Mucormycosis was diagnosed by skin biopsy. Microscopic examination also showed panniculitis. The patient was treated successfully with amphotericin B and surgical resection. To our knowledge, this is the first description of primary cutaneous mucormycosis with erythema-nodosum-like lesions and panniculitis after renal transplantation. CONCLUSION: Cutaneous mucormycosis should be considered in the differential diagnosis when a kidney transplant recipient develops erythema-nodosum-like lesions with panniculitis. BioMed Central 2008-04-19 /pmc/articles/PMC2365968/ /pubmed/18423044 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-112 Text en Copyright © 2008 Nouri-Majalan and Moghimi; licensee BioMed Central Ltd. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License ( (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0) ), which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Skin mucormycosis presenting as an erythema-nodosum-like rash in a renal transplant recipient: a case report
title_full Skin mucormycosis presenting as an erythema-nodosum-like rash in a renal transplant recipient: a case report
title_fullStr Skin mucormycosis presenting as an erythema-nodosum-like rash in a renal transplant recipient: a case report
title_full_unstemmed Skin mucormycosis presenting as an erythema-nodosum-like rash in a renal transplant recipient: a case report
title_short Skin mucormycosis presenting as an erythema-nodosum-like rash in a renal transplant recipient: a case report
title_sort skin mucormycosis presenting as an erythema-nodosum-like rash in a renal transplant recipient: a case report
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2365968/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/18423044
http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1752-1947-2-112
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