AURICULAR ENLARGEMENT: AN ATYPICAL PRESENTATION OF OLD WORLD CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS

The auricle is an extremely rare site for cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in Old World, which tends to be a benign disease with self-healing small nodules such as the “oriental sore”. However, in the New World, there is a type of CL of the ear, named as “chiclero's ulcer” which is caused by Leishm...

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Autores principales: Robati, Reza Mahmoud, Qeisari, Mehdi, Saeedi, Marjan, Karimi, Mona
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications 2011
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3179011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21965856
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.84750
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author Robati, Reza Mahmoud
Qeisari, Mehdi
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description The auricle is an extremely rare site for cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in Old World, which tends to be a benign disease with self-healing small nodules such as the “oriental sore”. However, in the New World, there is a type of CL of the ear, named as “chiclero's ulcer” which is caused by Leishmania mexicana. Herein, we describe a case of massive auricular enlargement due to Old World CL.
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spelling pubmed-31790112011-10-02 AURICULAR ENLARGEMENT: AN ATYPICAL PRESENTATION OF OLD WORLD CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS Robati, Reza Mahmoud Qeisari, Mehdi Saeedi, Marjan Karimi, Mona Indian J Dermatol Case Report The auricle is an extremely rare site for cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) in Old World, which tends to be a benign disease with self-healing small nodules such as the “oriental sore”. However, in the New World, there is a type of CL of the ear, named as “chiclero's ulcer” which is caused by Leishmania mexicana. Herein, we describe a case of massive auricular enlargement due to Old World CL. Medknow Publications 2011 /pmc/articles/PMC3179011/ /pubmed/21965856 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.84750 Text en © Indian Journal of Dermatology 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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Robati, Reza Mahmoud
Qeisari, Mehdi
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AURICULAR ENLARGEMENT: AN ATYPICAL PRESENTATION OF OLD WORLD CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS
title AURICULAR ENLARGEMENT: AN ATYPICAL PRESENTATION OF OLD WORLD CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS
title_full AURICULAR ENLARGEMENT: AN ATYPICAL PRESENTATION OF OLD WORLD CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS
title_fullStr AURICULAR ENLARGEMENT: AN ATYPICAL PRESENTATION OF OLD WORLD CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS
title_full_unstemmed AURICULAR ENLARGEMENT: AN ATYPICAL PRESENTATION OF OLD WORLD CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS
title_short AURICULAR ENLARGEMENT: AN ATYPICAL PRESENTATION OF OLD WORLD CUTANEOUS LEISHMANIASIS
title_sort auricular enlargement: an atypical presentation of old world cutaneous leishmaniasis
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3179011/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/21965856
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.84750
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