Acute disseminated cutaneous candidiasis.
Acute disseminated candidiasis is a serious and difficult problem often seen in immunocompromised states. Appearance of a characteristic skin eruption is helpful in the diagnostic. We report below a case report of an eight year old girl with aplastic anemia who had received multiple courses of antibiotics. A profuse monomorphic papular nodular eruption subsequently appeared on the face, palms and soles. Candida tropicalis was identified from the skin biopsy taken from one such lesion.
Fong
P H
PH
Department of Medicine, National University Hospital, Singapore.
Chan
H L
HL
Lee
Y S
YS
Wong
H B
HB
D000208:Acute Disease; D000741:Anemia, Aplastic / Q000150:complications; D002179:Candidiasis, Cutaneous / Q000150:complications / Q000473:pathology*; D002648:Child; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans