Cutaneous blastomycosis: a clue to a systemic disease

A 55-year-old male presented with back pain and slightly tender annular plaques with central ulceration on his face. A skin biopsy revealed scattered yeast with broad based buds. A CT scan of the abdomen revealed a pathologic T12 fracture. Tissue obtained from the spine confirmed budding yeasts. The...

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Autores principales: Ortega-Loayza, Alex G, Nguyen, Tuyet
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2013
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Imaging in Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3750900/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23739696
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0365-05962013000200022
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description A 55-year-old male presented with back pain and slightly tender annular plaques with central ulceration on his face. A skin biopsy revealed scattered yeast with broad based buds. A CT scan of the abdomen revealed a pathologic T12 fracture. Tissue obtained from the spine confirmed budding yeasts. The patient was diagnosed with disseminated blastomycosis. The patient was treated with amphotericin and itraconazole and completely recovered.
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spelling pubmed-37509002013-09-18 Cutaneous blastomycosis: a clue to a systemic disease Ortega-Loayza, Alex G Nguyen, Tuyet An Bras Dermatol Imaging in Dermatology A 55-year-old male presented with back pain and slightly tender annular plaques with central ulceration on his face. A skin biopsy revealed scattered yeast with broad based buds. A CT scan of the abdomen revealed a pathologic T12 fracture. Tissue obtained from the spine confirmed budding yeasts. The patient was diagnosed with disseminated blastomycosis. The patient was treated with amphotericin and itraconazole and completely recovered. Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2013 /pmc/articles/PMC3750900/ /pubmed/23739696 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0365-05962013000200022 Text en ©2013 by Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of 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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Cutaneous blastomycosis: a clue to a systemic disease
title Cutaneous blastomycosis: a clue to a systemic disease
title_full Cutaneous blastomycosis: a clue to a systemic disease
title_fullStr Cutaneous blastomycosis: a clue to a systemic disease
title_full_unstemmed Cutaneous blastomycosis: a clue to a systemic disease
title_short Cutaneous blastomycosis: a clue to a systemic disease
title_sort cutaneous blastomycosis: a clue to a systemic disease
topic Imaging in Dermatology
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3750900/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23739696
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/S0365-05962013000200022
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