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Invasive Aspergillosis with Disseminated Skin Involvement in a Patient with Acute Myeloid Leukemia: A Rare Case

Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis is most commonly seen in immunocompromised patients. Besides, skin lesions may also develop due to invasive aspergillosis in those patients. A 49-year-old male patient was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. The patient developed bullous and zosteriform lesions on...

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Autores principales: Mert, Duygu, Iskender, Gülşen, Duygu, Fazilet, Merdin, Alparslan, Dal Mehmet, Sinan, Dogan, Mehmet, Tekgündüz, Emre, Ertek, Mustafa, Altuntaş, Fevzi
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: PAGEPress Publications, Pavia, Italy 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5472346/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28626542
http://dx.doi.org/10.4081/hr.2017.6997
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Sumario:Invasive pulmonary aspergillosis is most commonly seen in immunocompromised patients. Besides, skin lesions may also develop due to invasive aspergillosis in those patients. A 49-year-old male patient was diagnosed with acute myeloid leukemia. The patient developed bullous and zosteriform lesions on the skin after the 21st day of hospitalization. The skin biopsy showed hyphae. Disseminated skin aspergillosis was diagnosed to the patient. Voricanazole treatment was initiated. The patient was discharged once the lesions started to disappear.