Blastomycosis presenting as an isolated progressive painless verrucous skin lesion

A painless progressive verrucous skin plaque in an endemic area should raise suspicion for blastomycosis resulting in prompt biopsy with fungal stains and culture. Skin is a common extrapulmonary site. Itraconazole is treatment of choice.

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Autor principal: Butt, Saira
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020
Materias:
Clinical Image
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7141706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32274059
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2556
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spelling pubmed-71417062020-04-09 Blastomycosis presenting as an isolated progressive painless verrucous skin lesion Butt, Saira Clin Case Rep Clinical Image A painless progressive verrucous skin plaque in an endemic area should raise suspicion for blastomycosis resulting in prompt biopsy with fungal stains and culture. Skin is a common extrapulmonary site. Itraconazole is treatment of choice. John Wiley and Sons Inc. 2020-02-25 /pmc/articles/PMC7141706/ /pubmed/32274059 http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2556 Text en © 2020 The Authors. Clinical Case Reports published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd. This is an open access article under the terms of the http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Blastomycosis presenting as an isolated progressive painless verrucous skin lesion
title Blastomycosis presenting as an isolated progressive painless verrucous skin lesion
title_full Blastomycosis presenting as an isolated progressive painless verrucous skin lesion
title_fullStr Blastomycosis presenting as an isolated progressive painless verrucous skin lesion
title_full_unstemmed Blastomycosis presenting as an isolated progressive painless verrucous skin lesion
title_short Blastomycosis presenting as an isolated progressive painless verrucous skin lesion
title_sort blastomycosis presenting as an isolated progressive painless verrucous skin lesion
topic Clinical Image
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC7141706/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/32274059
http://dx.doi.org/10.1002/ccr3.2556
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