Bacillary angiomatosis in an immunocompetent child.
Bacillary angiomatosis (BA) is a pathological process characterized by prominent vascular proliferation secondary to organisms of the genus Rochalimaea. BA has been most commonly associated with HIV-1+ patients, but has also been reported rarely in other immune-suppressed patients and in a small group of patients with no demonstrated immune suppression. Even in immune-suppressed children, BA is extremely rare. We report a 5-year-old girl with no apparent immune suppression and no risk factors for HIV-1+ disease, who presented with a skin lesion that histopathologically was diagnostic of BA.
Smith
K J
KJ
United States Army Medical Research Institute for Chemical Defense, Rochester, New York, USA.
Skelton
H G
HG
Tuur
S
S
Larson
P L
PL
Angritt
P
P
D000038:Abscess / Q000473:pathology; D016917:Angiomatosis, Bacillary / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology*; D001473:Bartonella; D002675:Child, Preschool; D004730:Endothelium, Vascular / Q000473:pathology; D004817:Epidermis / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D006679:HIV Seropositivity; D006801:Humans; D007121:Immunocompetence; D016867:Immunocompromised Host; D012307:Risk Factors