Case report and literature review: Genital leishmaniasis

The majority of genital ulcers are caused by sexually transmitted infections, though there are also other infectious and noninfectious etiologies. We present here an unusual cause of a penile ulcer due to cutaneous leishmaniasis, along with a review of the literature regarding such cases. The patien...

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Autores principales: Gazerani, Sasan, Huntington, Mark K., Satvati, Javad
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Elsevier 2022
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9424603/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36051985
http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01596
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description The majority of genital ulcers are caused by sexually transmitted infections, though there are also other infectious and noninfectious etiologies. We present here an unusual cause of a penile ulcer due to cutaneous leishmaniasis, along with a review of the literature regarding such cases. The patient recovered following timely initiation of treatment. Rapid diagnosis of this case was aided by occurring in the context of a concurrent outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the region in which the patient resided
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spelling pubmed-94246032022-08-31 Case report and literature review: Genital leishmaniasis Gazerani, Sasan Huntington, Mark K. Satvati, Javad IDCases Case Report The majority of genital ulcers are caused by sexually transmitted infections, though there are also other infectious and noninfectious etiologies. We present here an unusual cause of a penile ulcer due to cutaneous leishmaniasis, along with a review of the literature regarding such cases. The patient recovered following timely initiation of treatment. Rapid diagnosis of this case was aided by occurring in the context of a concurrent outbreak of cutaneous leishmaniasis in the region in which the patient resided Elsevier 2022-08-06 /pmc/articles/PMC9424603/ /pubmed/36051985 http://dx.doi.org/10.1016/j.idcr.2022.e01596 Text en © 2022 The Authors https://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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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9424603/
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