Chromoblastomycosis in a Solomon Islander
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Chromoblastomycosis in a Solomon Islander.
A 71-year-old farmer from the Solomon Islands presented in Melbourne with fungating skin lesions on his left lower leg. The process began 20 years earlier, leaving areas of scarring between the active sites (Figure, A and B). He was otherwise well. A skin biopsy showed granulomatous inflammation with sclerotic bodies characteristic of chromoblastomycosis (Figure, C), and Fonsecaea pedrosoi was ...
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عنوان ژورنال: Medical Journal of Australia
سال: 2012
ISSN: 0025-729X,1326-5377
DOI: 10.5694/mja12.10006