Recurrent cutaneous leishmaniasis presenting as sporotrichoid abscesses: A rare presentation near Afghanistan border

Dermatology Online Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2007, Pages

  Ejaz, Amer ^a   Raza, Naeem ^a   Iftikhar, Nadia ^b  

^a Malir National University of Medical Sciences   (Pakistan)

^b MILITARY HOSPITAL   (Pakistan)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTIBIOTIC AGENT; MEGLUMINE ANTIMONATE; MEGLUMINE;

ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ANAMNESIS; ARTICLE; ASPIRATION; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; GRAM STAINING; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; LABORATORY TEST; LEISHMANIA TROPICA; MALE; PAKISTAN; PATHOGENESIS; PRESCRIPTION; RECURRENT DISEASE; SKIN ABSCESS; SKIN BIOPSY; SKIN LEISHMANIASIS; SKIN ULCER; SOLDIER; SPOROTRICHOSIS; THORAX RADIOGRAPHY; TREATMENT DURATION; TREATMENT OUTCOME; TREATMENT RESPONSE; TUBERCULIN TEST; ABSCESS; ANIMAL; ARM; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; FOLLOW UP; HOSPITALIZATION; INTRAMUSCULAR DRUG ADMINISTRATION; RARE DISEASE;

ABSCESS; ADULT; AFGHANISTAN; ANIMALS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FOLLOW-UP STUDIES; HUMANS; INJECTIONS, INTRAMUSCULAR; LEISHMANIASIS, CUTANEOUS; MALE; MEGLUMINE; RARE DISEASES; RECURRENCE; SEVERITY OF ILLNESS INDEX; SPOROTRICHOSIS; TREATMENT OUTCOME; UPPER EXTREMITY;

EID: 34248214661     PISSN: None     EISSN: 10872108     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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