Diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis with oral involvement in a patient of northern Mexico
Bruno Augusto Linhares Almeida Mariz, Celeste Sánchez-Romero, Nelson Alejandro Padron Alvarado, Edgar Manuel Muñoz Campos, Oslei Paes de Almeida, Ricardo Martínez-Pedraza
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Abstract: Diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis is a rare chronic infectious disease, associated with Leishmania mexicana and L. amazonensis, presenting as multiple non-ulcerative painless nodules, with a tendency to relapse soon after treatment. We report a case of a 56-year-old Mexican woman exhibiting...
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Abstract: Diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis is a rare chronic infectious disease, associated with Leishmania mexicana and L. amazonensis, presenting as multiple non-ulcerative painless nodules, with a tendency to relapse soon after treatment. We report a case of a 56-year-old Mexican woman exhibiting nodular lesions, plaques, crusts and scars involving the whole body. A solitary nodule was present at the junction between hard and soft palates. Diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis is a disfiguring disease resulting in severe scarring if untreated
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Diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis with oral involvement in a patient of northern Mexico
Bruno Augusto Linhares Almeida Mariz, Celeste Sánchez-Romero, Nelson Alejandro Padron Alvarado, Edgar Manuel Muñoz Campos, Oslei Paes de Almeida, Ricardo Martínez-Pedraza
Diffuse cutaneous leishmaniasis with oral involvement in a patient of northern Mexico
Bruno Augusto Linhares Almeida Mariz, Celeste Sánchez-Romero, Nelson Alejandro Padron Alvarado, Edgar Manuel Muñoz Campos, Oslei Paes de Almeida, Ricardo Martínez-Pedraza
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Tropical doctor Vol. 49, no. 4 (Oct., 2019), p. 303-306 |