title: Guess what! Pseudomonas aeruginosa sepsis.
abstract: A 62-year-old woman affected by end-stage renal disease secondary to Waldenstrom's disease was admitted to place a central venous catheter for hemodialysis purposes. During the admission, she gradually developed a number of necrotic ulcerative and fluctuant nodular skin lesions on the submammary flexures, groins and limbs accompanied by high fever and chills. Yellow-green purulent material could be drained from the site of introduction of the jugular catheter. Skin biopsies were taken from the edge of an inguinal necrotic-ulcerative lesion and from a fluctuant nodular lesion of the thigh, where pus was drained and cultured.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology A. Murri Hospital via dei Colli, 52, 60035 Jesi (AN), Italy. dermjesi@yahoo.it
authors.forename: Leonardo
authors.initials: L
authors.lastname: Bugatti
authors.forename: Massimiliano
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Nicolini
authors.forename: Alessandra
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Filosa
authors.forename: Giorgio
authors.initials: G
authors.lastname: Filosa
mesh_terms: D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008875:Middle Aged; D011552:Pseudomonas Infections / Q000473:pathology*; D011550:Pseudomonas aeruginosa / Q000302:isolation & purification; D018805:Sepsis / Q000473:pathology*; D012883:Skin Ulcer / Q000473:pathology