Bacillary angiomatosis in a solid organ transplant recipient
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Bacillary angiomatosis
DR J. SHAUN MURPHY: A 30-year-old woman was found to have human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) at age 22 (1989). She also had a history of moderate asthma. She had been in her usual health until 2 months before hospitalization when nonbloody diarrhea appeared. A month later, she noted a small, yellow mass arising from her umbilicus (Figure 1). Seven days before the patient's admission to the hosp...
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عنوان ژورنال: IDCases
سال: 2019
ISSN: 2214-2509
DOI: 10.1016/j.idcr.2019.e00649