Nontuberculous mycobacterial skin infection resembling lepromatous leprosy.
A leg ulcer in a 52-year-old renal transplant patient yielded foamy histiocytes containing acid-fast bacilli subsequently identified as a Runyon group III Mycobacterium. Skin infection with these organisms is unusual, and the histologic appearance in this case suggested lepromatous leprosy.
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D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007871:Leg Ulcer / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007918:Leprosy / Q000175:diagnosis*; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D009164:Mycobacterium Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D009162:Mycobacterium avium / Q000302:isolation & purification; D009167:Mycobacterium lepraemurium; D012874:Skin Diseases, Infectious / Q000175:diagnosis*