title: Early diagnosis and prompt treatment by surgery in Jorge Lobo's disease (keloidal blastomycosis).
abstract: In 1931 the Brazilian doctor Jorge Lobo examined a patient from the Amazon Basin who had nodular confluent skin lesions over the lumbosacral region and encountered a new fungus pathogenic for man Paracoccidioides loboi. This classification was based on the morphological aspect of the parasite which was very similar to Paracoccidioides brasiliensis the causative agent of a systemic mycosis Paracoccidioidomycosis or South American Blastomycosis. Other authors use the name Loboa loboi. The final determination of the name must await cultivation of the fungus.
mesh_terms: D000328:Adult; D001938:Brazil; D003881:Dermatomycoses / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D010229:Paracoccidioidomycosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000601:surgery