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Dermoscopy of chromoblastomycosis

Chromoblastomycosis is a chronic cutaneous fungal infection commonly caused by Fonsacea and Cladophialophora spp. Dermoscopy is a non-invasive, real-time diagnostic tool for rapid bedside diagnosis of various inflammatory and non-inflammatory disorders and can be an excellent modality for evaluation...

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Detalles Bibliográficos
Autores principales: Subhadarshani, Sweta, Yadav, Deepika
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Derm101.com 2017
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5718122/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/29214105
http://dx.doi.org/10.5826/dpc.0704a06
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Sumario:Chromoblastomycosis is a chronic cutaneous fungal infection commonly caused by Fonsacea and Cladophialophora spp. Dermoscopy is a non-invasive, real-time diagnostic tool for rapid bedside diagnosis of various inflammatory and non-inflammatory disorders and can be an excellent modality for evaluation of cutaneous mycosis, for which it shows characteristic brown dots, crust, scales and yellow orange structures.