Acute Primary Cutaneous Cryptococcosis
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Pyoderma gangrenosum-like primary cutaneous cryptococcosis.
Sir, The first published case of a Cryptococcus infection was reported by Zenker in 1861 (1), when he described a case of a man dying from a fungal infection involving the central nervous system (CNS). Thereafter, reports of Cryptococcus infections increased significantly. Today most cases occur in immunocompromised, often HIVinfected, individuals (2). C. neoformans (CN) is a ubiquitous yeast-l...
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1 of 2 DESCRIPTION A 31-year-old Caucasian offi ce worker who had received a liver transplanted 1 year earlier consulted for a painful ulcer located on the medial face of the right elbow ( fi gure 1 ). Four months before, he fell while skiing (without direct cutaneous exposure) and developed a haematoma on the right elbow that never healed but fi stulised and ulcerated. The lesion was solitary ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Dermatology
سال: 1964
ISSN: 1421-9832,1018-8665
DOI: 10.1159/000254774