A US Soldier Who Returned from Iraq with Nonhealing Sores
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A US soldier who returned from Iraq with nonhealing sores.
(See pages 1065–6 for Answer to Photo Quiz) Figure 1. Indurated lesions with central scale and posterior auricular adenopathy A previously healthy, 23-year-old US soldier was evacuated to the Walter Reed Army Medical Center (WRAMC) in Wash-ington, D.C., for evaluation of nonhealing lesions on his neck (figure 1) and body. The patient had deployed with his unit to Iraq in April 2003 and first no...
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عنوان ژورنال: Clinical Infectious Diseases
سال: 2004
ISSN: 1058-4838,1537-6591
DOI: 10.1086/424847