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An instance of excellent response of subcutaneous zygomycosis to itraconazole monotherapy

Subcutaneous zygomycosis is a rare fungal infection caused by Basidiobolus ranarum. This entity is usually endemic in South India and only limited numbers of cases have been reported from central India. We report a case of 4-year-old male child from Chhattisgarh, who presented with a painless, non-t...

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Autores principales: Patro, Priyadarshini, Das, Padma, Sachdev, Divya, Borkar, Nitinkumar, Ganguly, Satyaki, Hussain, Nighat
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2019
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6395828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30859059
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2019.02.002
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author Patro, Priyadarshini
Das, Padma
Sachdev, Divya
Borkar, Nitinkumar
Ganguly, Satyaki
Hussain, Nighat
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description Subcutaneous zygomycosis is a rare fungal infection caused by Basidiobolus ranarum. This entity is usually endemic in South India and only limited numbers of cases have been reported from central India. We report a case of 4-year-old male child from Chhattisgarh, who presented with a painless, non-tender, large, subcutaneous swelling of 4 months duration on the right upper arm, which was initially misdiagnosed as benign spindle cell tumor and advised surgical resection. But the fungal culture of the affected tissue grown Basidiobolus ranarum and the child responded very well to itraconazole therapy only.
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spelling pubmed-63958282019-03-11 An instance of excellent response of subcutaneous zygomycosis to itraconazole monotherapy Patro, Priyadarshini Das, Padma Sachdev, Divya Borkar, Nitinkumar Ganguly, Satyaki Hussain, Nighat Med Mycol Case Rep Case Report Subcutaneous zygomycosis is a rare fungal infection caused by Basidiobolus ranarum. This entity is usually endemic in South India and only limited numbers of cases have been reported from central India. We report a case of 4-year-old male child from Chhattisgarh, who presented with a painless, non-tender, large, subcutaneous swelling of 4 months duration on the right upper arm, which was initially misdiagnosed as benign spindle cell tumor and advised surgical resection. But the fungal culture of the affected tissue grown Basidiobolus ranarum and the child responded very well to itraconazole therapy only. Elsevier 2019-02-14 /pmc/articles/PMC6395828/ /pubmed/30859059 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2019.02.002 Text en © 2019 Published by Elsevier B.V. on behalf of International Society for Human and Animal Mycology. http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/ This is an open access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/).
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Patro, Priyadarshini
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An instance of excellent response of subcutaneous zygomycosis to itraconazole monotherapy
title An instance of excellent response of subcutaneous zygomycosis to itraconazole monotherapy
title_full An instance of excellent response of subcutaneous zygomycosis to itraconazole monotherapy
title_fullStr An instance of excellent response of subcutaneous zygomycosis to itraconazole monotherapy
title_full_unstemmed An instance of excellent response of subcutaneous zygomycosis to itraconazole monotherapy
title_short An instance of excellent response of subcutaneous zygomycosis to itraconazole monotherapy
title_sort instance of excellent response of subcutaneous zygomycosis to itraconazole monotherapy
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6395828/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/30859059
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.mmcr.2019.02.002
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