Primary cutaneous histoplasmosis developed in the penis of an immunocompetent patient()

A 70-year-old male presenting a 3-month history of genital painless erythematous nodules in the balanopreputial sulcus was referred to our service. Histopathological exam presented a chronic dermatitis with epithelioid granulomas and Grocott staining revealed numerous fungal structures with a sugges...

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Autores principales: Paixão, Mauricio, Miot, Hélio Amante, Avancini, João, Belda, Walter
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2015
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4371679/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25831000
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20153224
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author Paixão, Mauricio
Miot, Hélio Amante
Avancini, João
Belda, Walter
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description A 70-year-old male presenting a 3-month history of genital painless erythematous nodules in the balanopreputial sulcus was referred to our service. Histopathological exam presented a chronic dermatitis with epithelioid granulomas and Grocott staining revealed numerous fungal structures with a suggestive morphology of Histoplasma sp. Cultures evidenced Histoplasma capsulatum var. capsulatum. Treatment with oral itraconazole led to complete remission of lesions.
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spelling pubmed-43716792015-03-26 Primary cutaneous histoplasmosis developed in the penis of an immunocompetent patient() Paixão, Mauricio Miot, Hélio Amante Avancini, João Belda, Walter An Bras Dermatol Case Report A 70-year-old male presenting a 3-month history of genital painless erythematous nodules in the balanopreputial sulcus was referred to our service. Histopathological exam presented a chronic dermatitis with epithelioid granulomas and Grocott staining revealed numerous fungal structures with a suggestive morphology of Histoplasma sp. Cultures evidenced Histoplasma capsulatum var. capsulatum. Treatment with oral itraconazole led to complete remission of lesions. Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2015 /pmc/articles/PMC4371679/ /pubmed/25831000 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20153224 Text en © 2015 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 Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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title_full_unstemmed Primary cutaneous histoplasmosis developed in the penis of an immunocompetent patient()
title_short Primary cutaneous histoplasmosis developed in the penis of an immunocompetent patient()
title_sort primary cutaneous histoplasmosis developed in the penis of an immunocompetent patient()
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4371679/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/25831000
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20153224
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