Paracoccidioidomycosis: Infiltrated, sarcoid-like cutaneous lesions misinterpreted as tuberculoid leprosy

Revista do Instituto de Medicina Tropical de Sao Paulo

Volumn 50, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 47-50

  Marques, Sílvio Alencar ^a   Lastória, Joel Carlos ^a   Putinatti, Maria Stella De M A ^a   De Camargo, Rosangela Maria Pires ^a   Marques, Mariangela E A ^a  

^a SÃO PAULO STATE UNIVERSITY UNESP   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Granuloma pathology; Leprosy; Paracoccidioidomycosis; Sarcoid lesion

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B; CLOFAZIMINE; COTRIMOXAZOLE; DAPSONE; ITRACONAZOLE; RIFAMPICIN;

ABDOMINAL PAIN; ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL EXAMINATION; DIAGNOSTIC ERROR; DISEASE COURSE; FEMALE; FEVER; HISTOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN TISSUE; HYPERTROPHY; LYMPH NODE HYPERTROPHY; MALAISE; MULTIBACILLARY LEPROSY; PARACOCCIDIOIDES BRASILIENSIS; PHYSICAL EXAMINATION; SKIN DEFECT; SOUTH AMERICAN BLASTOMYCOSIS; TUBERCULOID LEPROSY; WEIGHT REDUCTION;

ADULT; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; DIAGNOSTIC ERRORS; FEMALE; HUMANS; LEPROSY, TUBERCULOID; PARACOCCIDIOIDOMYCOSIS;

EID: 40949138844     PISSN: 00364665     EISSN: 16789946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1590/S0036-46652008000100010     Document Type: Article

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