An unusual cause of skin "tumours" in a renal transplant recipient.
Renal transplant recipients on immunosuppression are at increased risk of developing skin cancers as well as opportunistic infections though it is usually not difficult to clinically differentiate cutaneous fungal infections from skin tumours. We describe a case of tinea capitis in a renal transplant recipient presenting with such an exuberant inflammatory reaction and nodule formation that it was clinically mistaken to be an appendigeal tumor.
Awasthi
Anshu
A
Department of Histopathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research Chandigarh, India, 160012. dranshupuneet@yahoo.co.in
Nada
Ritambhra
R
Gupta
Somesh
S
Sakhuja
Vinay
V
Joshi
Kusum
K
D000328:Adult; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D016867:Immunocompromised Host; D016030:Kidney Transplantation / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male; D012535:Scalp; D012878:Skin Neoplasms / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014006:Tinea Capitis / Q000175:diagnosis*