Visceral leishmaniasis revealed by a squamous cell carcinoma in an HIV-1 infected patient

Infection

Volumn 41, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 575-578

  Donati, P ^a   Paolino, G ^a   Panetta, C ^a   Muscardin, L ^a   Cota, C ^a   Giuliani, M ^a  

^a SAN GALLICANO DERMATOLOGICAL INSTITUTE   (Italy)

Author keywords

HIV 1; Leishmania infantum; Squamous cell carcinoma; Visceral leishmaniasis

Indexed keywords

AMPHOTERICIN B LIPID COMPLEX; LOPINAVIR PLUS RITONAVIR; STAVUDINE; ZIDOVUDINE;

ADULT; AMASTIGOTE; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; CD4 LYMPHOCYTE COUNT; DISEASE DURATION; HIGHLY ACTIVE ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS 1 INFECTION; HUMAN IMMUNODEFICIENCY VIRUS INFECTED PATIENT; HUMAN TISSUE; INTRAVENOUS DRUG ABUSE; ITALY; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; MALE; PUNCH BIOPSY; SCALP; SQUAMOUS CELL CARCINOMA; VISCERAL LEISHMANIASIS;

AIDS-RELATED OPPORTUNISTIC INFECTIONS; AMPHOTERICIN B; ANTI-HIV AGENTS; ANTIRETROVIRAL THERAPY, HIGHLY ACTIVE; CARCINOMA, SQUAMOUS CELL; HUMANS; KERATINOCYTES; LEISHMANIA INFANTUM; LEISHMANIASIS, VISCERAL; MALE; MIDDLE AGED;

EID: 84879500944     PISSN: 03008126     EISSN: 14390973     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s15010-013-0412-4     Document Type: Article

References (19)

1. Desjeux P, Alvar J. Leishmania/HIV co-infections: epidemiology in Europe. Ann Trop Med Parasitol. 2003;97:3-15.
2. Paredes R, Munoz J, Diaz I, et al. Leishmaniasis in HIV infection. J Postgrad Med. 2003;49:39-49.
3. Gradoni L, Scalone A, Gramiccia M, Troiani M. Epidemiological surveillance of leishmaniasis in HIV-1-infected individuals in Italy. AIDS. 1996;10:785-91.
4. Alvar J, Aparicio P, Aseffa A, Den Boer M, Canavate C, et al. The relationship between leishmaniasis and AIDS: the second 10 years. Clin Microbiol Rev. 2008;21:334-59.
5. Garg R, Barat C, Ouellet M, Lodge R, Tremblay MJ. Leishmania infantum amastigotes enhance HIV-1 production in cocultures of human dendritic cells and CD4+ T cells by inducing secretion of IL-6 and TNF-α. PLOS Negl Trop Dis. 2009;3:e441.
6. Jimenez-Exposito MJ, Alonso-Villaverde C, Sarda P, Masana L. Visceral leishmaniasis in HIV-infected patients with non-detectable HIV-1 viral load after highly active antiretroviral therapy. AIDS. 1999;13:152-3.
7. Gallego MA, Aguillar A, Plaza S, et al. Kaposis's sarcoma with an intense parasitization by Leishmania. Cutis. 1996;57:103-5.
8. Castellano VM, Rodriguez-Peraltro JL, Alonso S, Gomez-De la Fuente E, Ibarrola C. Dermatofibroma parasitized by Leishmania in HIV infection: a new morphologic expression of the dermal Kala Azar in an immunodepressed patient. J Cutan Pathol. 1999;26:516-9.
9. Bosch RJ, Rodrigo AB, Sanchez P, de Galvez MV, Herrera E. Presence of Leishmania organisms in specific and non-specific skin lesions in HIV-infected individuals with visceral leishmaniasis. Int J Dermatol. 2002;41:670-5.
10. Perrin C, Michielis JF, Bernard E, et al. Cutaneous spindle-cell pseudotumors due to mycobacterium gordonae and Leishmania Infantum: an immunophenotypic study. Am J Dermatopathol. 1993;15:553-8.
11. Antinori S, Calattini S, Longhi E, et al. Clinical use of polymerase chain reaction performed on peripheral blood and bone marrow samples for the diagnosis and monitoring of visceral leishmaniasis in HIV-infected and HIV-uninfected patients: a single-center, 8-year experience in Italy and review of the literature. Clin Infect Dis. 2007;44:1602-10.
12. Bourgeois N, Bastien P, Reynes J, Makinson A, Rouanet I, Lachaud L. 'Active chronic visceral leishmaniasis' in HIV-1-infected patients demonstrated by biological and clinical long-term follow-up of 10 patients. HIV Med. 2010;11:670-3.
13. de Oliveira CP, Junger J, do Espirito Santo Silva Pires F, Mattos M, Oliveira-Neto MP, Fernandes O, Pirmez C. Haematogenous dissemination of Leishmania (Viannia) braziliensis in human American tegumentary leishmaniasis. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2006;100:1112-7.
14. del Giudice P, Marty P, Lacour JP, Perrin C, Pratlong F, Haas H, Dellamonica P, Le Fichoux Y. Cutaneous leishmaniasis due to Leishmania infantum. Case reports and literature review. Arch Dermatol. 1998;134(2):193-8.
15. Boutros N, Hawkins D, Nelson M, et al. Burkitt lymphoma and leishmaniasis in the same tissue sample in an AIDS patient. Histopathology. 2006;48:880-1.
16. Kopterides P, Mourtzoukou EG, Skopelitis E, et al. Aspects of the association between leishmaniasis and malignant disorders. Trans R Soc Trop Med Hyg. 2007;101:1181-9.
17. Friedman R, Hanson S, Goldberg LH, et al. Squamous cell carcinoma arising in a Leishmania scar. Dermatol Surg. 2003;29:1148-9.
18. Bielory BP, Lari HB, Mirani N, Kapila R, Fizhugh VA, Turbin RE. Conjunctival squamous cell carcinoma harbouring Leishmania amastigotes in a human immunodeficiency virus positive patient. Arch Ophtalmol. 2011;129:1230-1.
19. Armengot-Carbò M, Carmen-Ramon R, Nicolas-Rodrigo B, Marco-Ferrando J. Unsuspected visceral leishmaniasis infiltrating a squamous cell carcinoma. Actas Dermosifiliogr. 2012;103:321-323.