Pseudomonas aeruginosa sepsis presenting as peripheral subcutaneous nodules. Report of 2 cases.
Two patients developed disseminated subcutaneous nodules with febrile illness. In both cases, Pseudomonas aeruginosa was isolated from the lesions; blood cultures yielded the same organism in one case, and were negative in the other. The portal of entry was thought to be a jugular hemodalysis catheter in the first case and a necrotic zoster complicating lymphoma in the second case. Both patients' condition improved with antibiotic therapy and the Pseudomonas nodules resolved without surgical drainage.
Raffi
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Infectious Diseases Department, Claude Bernard Hospital, Paris, France.
Regnier
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B
Pichon
F
F
Leport
C
C
Vilde
J L
JL
D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D011552:Pseudomonas Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012874:Skin Diseases, Infectious / Q000175:diagnosis*