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Subcutaneous Scedosporiosis with Dissemination
Disseminated infection with Scedosporium apiospermum is an emerging opportunistic infection in immunocompromised individuals. A 41-year-old male farmer presented with a diffuse swelling in the right foot with discharge of whitish material from the swelling for 1 year. He also had multiple cystic swe...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6714190/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31516142 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijd.IJD_332_18 |
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author | Chandrakala, C Tharini, Gurusami Karuvelan |
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description | Disseminated infection with Scedosporium apiospermum is an emerging opportunistic infection in immunocompromised individuals. A 41-year-old male farmer presented with a diffuse swelling in the right foot with discharge of whitish material from the swelling for 1 year. He also had multiple cystic swellings of varying sizes in the right ankle, left leg, left foot, and right forearm for 6 months. There was a history of diabetes and steroid therapy for joint pain which had increased the risk of dissemination of fungi in our patient. Early recognition of this infection and treating the patients with systemic antifungal drugs such as voriconazole and local surgical debridement help in resolution of the lesion. |
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spelling | pubmed-67141902019-09-12 Subcutaneous Scedosporiosis with Dissemination Chandrakala, C Tharini, Gurusami Karuvelan Indian J Dermatol Case Report Disseminated infection with Scedosporium apiospermum is an emerging opportunistic infection in immunocompromised individuals. A 41-year-old male farmer presented with a diffuse swelling in the right foot with discharge of whitish material from the swelling for 1 year. He also had multiple cystic swellings of varying sizes in the right ankle, left leg, left foot, and right forearm for 6 months. There was a history of diabetes and steroid therapy for joint pain which had increased the risk of dissemination of fungi in our patient. Early recognition of this infection and treating the patients with systemic antifungal drugs such as voriconazole and local surgical debridement help in resolution of the lesion. Wolters Kluwer - Medknow 2019 /pmc/articles/PMC6714190/ /pubmed/31516142 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijd.IJD_332_18 Text en Copyright: © 2019 Indian Journal of Dermatology http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/4.0 This is an open access journal, and articles are distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 4.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as appropriate credit is given and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Chandrakala, C Tharini, Gurusami Karuvelan Subcutaneous Scedosporiosis with Dissemination |
title | Subcutaneous Scedosporiosis with Dissemination |
title_full | Subcutaneous Scedosporiosis with Dissemination |
title_fullStr | Subcutaneous Scedosporiosis with Dissemination |
title_full_unstemmed | Subcutaneous Scedosporiosis with Dissemination |
title_short | Subcutaneous Scedosporiosis with Dissemination |
title_sort | subcutaneous scedosporiosis with dissemination |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC6714190/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/31516142 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/ijd.IJD_332_18 |
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