Primary Cutaneous Nocardiosis

A 35-year-old male presented with multiple discharging sinuses and fluctuant swelling on right side of face which started after a vehicular accident three year back. The lesions did not respond to routine antibiotics treatment but went on increasing. Gram smear showed typical acid fast branching fil...

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Autores principales: Saoji, Vikrant A, Saoji, Sandhya V, Gadegone, Rutuja W, Menghani, Priyanka R
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3482810/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23112367
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.100502
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author Saoji, Vikrant A
Saoji, Sandhya V
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Menghani, Priyanka R
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description A 35-year-old male presented with multiple discharging sinuses and fluctuant swelling on right side of face which started after a vehicular accident three year back. The lesions did not respond to routine antibiotics treatment but went on increasing. Gram smear showed typical acid fast branching filaments suggestive of nocardiosis, which was confirmed by culture. Patient received co-trimoxazole for three and a half month. When seen again after three years, all the lesions had healed with puckered scarring. Patient had received co-trimoxazole for three and a half months with dramatic improvement.
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spelling pubmed-34828102012-10-30 Primary Cutaneous Nocardiosis Saoji, Vikrant A Saoji, Sandhya V Gadegone, Rutuja W Menghani, Priyanka R Indian J Dermatol Case Report A 35-year-old male presented with multiple discharging sinuses and fluctuant swelling on right side of face which started after a vehicular accident three year back. The lesions did not respond to routine antibiotics treatment but went on increasing. Gram smear showed typical acid fast branching filaments suggestive of nocardiosis, which was confirmed by culture. Patient received co-trimoxazole for three and a half month. When seen again after three years, all the lesions had healed with puckered scarring. Patient had received co-trimoxazole for three and a half months with dramatic improvement. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2012 /pmc/articles/PMC3482810/ /pubmed/23112367 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.100502 Text en Copyright: © 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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