Genital elephantiasis as a complication of chromoblastomycosis: A diagnosis overlooked

Over the decades, causes of genital elephantiasis have changed only to become elusive to etiological diagnosis. This is a case of 20 year old male who presented with genital elephantiasis occurring due to lymphatic obstruction caused by chromoblastomycosis and super added erysipelas. The diagnosis o...

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Autores principales: Sharma, Nidhi, Marfatia, Y. S.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2009
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21938115
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2589-0557.55486
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description Over the decades, causes of genital elephantiasis have changed only to become elusive to etiological diagnosis. This is a case of 20 year old male who presented with genital elephantiasis occurring due to lymphatic obstruction caused by chromoblastomycosis and super added erysipelas. The diagnosis of chromoblastomycosis was clenched by biopsy. We describe this case for the rarity of its occurrence.
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spelling pubmed-31680402011-09-21 Genital elephantiasis as a complication of chromoblastomycosis: A diagnosis overlooked Sharma, Nidhi Marfatia, Y. S. Indian J Sex Transm Dis AIDS Case Report Over the decades, causes of genital elephantiasis have changed only to become elusive to etiological diagnosis. This is a case of 20 year old male who presented with genital elephantiasis occurring due to lymphatic obstruction caused by chromoblastomycosis and super added erysipelas. The diagnosis of chromoblastomycosis was clenched by biopsy. We describe this case for the rarity of its occurrence. Medknow Publications 2009 /pmc/articles/PMC3168040/ /pubmed/21938115 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2589-0557.55486 Text en Copyright: © Indian Journal of Sexually Transmitted Diseases and AIDS http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-Noncommercial-Share Alike 3.0 Unported, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title Genital elephantiasis as a complication of chromoblastomycosis: A diagnosis overlooked
title_full Genital elephantiasis as a complication of chromoblastomycosis: A diagnosis overlooked
title_fullStr Genital elephantiasis as a complication of chromoblastomycosis: A diagnosis overlooked
title_full_unstemmed Genital elephantiasis as a complication of chromoblastomycosis: A diagnosis overlooked
title_short Genital elephantiasis as a complication of chromoblastomycosis: A diagnosis overlooked
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3168040/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21938115
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