Alleviating a Nomad's Anguish: Successful Treatment of a Case of Leg Mycetoma—A Case Report

Introduction. Mycetoma is a localized, chronic, progressive, granulomatous, inflammatory, non contagious, tumour-like lesion with sinuses discharging different types of granules. The organisms are usually inoculated into any body part subject to trauma-usually the foot. Treatment is medical and/or s...

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Autores principales: Maina, Anthony Muchiri, Macharia, Joseph Theuri
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3518950/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23243538
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/753174
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description Introduction. Mycetoma is a localized, chronic, progressive, granulomatous, inflammatory, non contagious, tumour-like lesion with sinuses discharging different types of granules. The organisms are usually inoculated into any body part subject to trauma-usually the foot. Treatment is medical and/or surgical. Prognosis is good in early cases with high recurrences in late cases or those inadequately treated. The authors describe the successful treatment of a severe case of leg mycetoma, with combined surgical and medical therapies.
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spelling pubmed-35189502012-12-14 Alleviating a Nomad's Anguish: Successful Treatment of a Case of Leg Mycetoma—A Case Report Maina, Anthony Muchiri Macharia, Joseph Theuri Case Rep Orthop Case Report Introduction. Mycetoma is a localized, chronic, progressive, granulomatous, inflammatory, non contagious, tumour-like lesion with sinuses discharging different types of granules. The organisms are usually inoculated into any body part subject to trauma-usually the foot. Treatment is medical and/or surgical. Prognosis is good in early cases with high recurrences in late cases or those inadequately treated. The authors describe the successful treatment of a severe case of leg mycetoma, with combined surgical and medical therapies. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2012 2012-12-03 /pmc/articles/PMC3518950/ /pubmed/23243538 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2012/753174 Text en Copyright © 2012 A. M. Maina and J. T. Macharia. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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