Verrucous Onychomycosis Caused by Curvularia in a Patient with Congenital Pterygium

A 57 year healthy farmer with congenital nail pterygium presented with a verrucous growth on nail bed since 8 months. He was not diabetic and HIV rapid card test negative. Our clinical diagnosis was chromoblastomycosis but culture showed growth of curvularia species on two occasions and histopatholo...

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Autores principales: Vineetha, Mary, Palakkal, Seena, Sobhanakumari, K, Celine, MI, Letha, V
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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E-IJD Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5122305/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27904208
http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.193717
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author Vineetha, Mary
Palakkal, Seena
Sobhanakumari, K
Celine, MI
Letha, V
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description A 57 year healthy farmer with congenital nail pterygium presented with a verrucous growth on nail bed since 8 months. He was not diabetic and HIV rapid card test negative. Our clinical diagnosis was chromoblastomycosis but culture showed growth of curvularia species on two occasions and histopathology showed hyphal and yeast forms of the pigmented fungus. After excision biopsy patient was started on oral itraconazole. This case is reported due to rarity of verrucous cutaneous lesions caused by curvularia in immunocompetent individuals.
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spelling pubmed-51223052016-11-30 Verrucous Onychomycosis Caused by Curvularia in a Patient with Congenital Pterygium Vineetha, Mary Palakkal, Seena Sobhanakumari, K Celine, MI Letha, V Indian J Dermatol E-IJD Case Report A 57 year healthy farmer with congenital nail pterygium presented with a verrucous growth on nail bed since 8 months. He was not diabetic and HIV rapid card test negative. Our clinical diagnosis was chromoblastomycosis but culture showed growth of curvularia species on two occasions and histopathology showed hyphal and yeast forms of the pigmented fungus. After excision biopsy patient was started on oral itraconazole. This case is reported due to rarity of verrucous cutaneous lesions caused by curvularia in immunocompetent individuals. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5122305/ /pubmed/27904208 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.193717 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-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms.
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Verrucous Onychomycosis Caused by Curvularia in a Patient with Congenital Pterygium
title Verrucous Onychomycosis Caused by Curvularia in a Patient with Congenital Pterygium
title_full Verrucous Onychomycosis Caused by Curvularia in a Patient with Congenital Pterygium
title_fullStr Verrucous Onychomycosis Caused by Curvularia in a Patient with Congenital Pterygium
title_full_unstemmed Verrucous Onychomycosis Caused by Curvularia in a Patient with Congenital Pterygium
title_short Verrucous Onychomycosis Caused by Curvularia in a Patient with Congenital Pterygium
title_sort verrucous onychomycosis caused by curvularia in a patient with congenital pterygium
topic E-IJD Case Report
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http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.193717
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