title: Cutaneous mucormycosis in a young, immunocompetent girl.
abstract: We report a case of cutaneous mucormycosis in a healthy, immunocompetent young girl (age 14 years). The patient had a 5-year history of a slowly enlarging, erythematous plaque with slight elevated, scaling, circinate borders on the right thigh. Histopathology showed a granulomatous infiltrate with broad, pale, non-septate hyphae. Mycological study identified Mucor hiemalis (Wehmer).
authors.affiliation: Instituto de Pesquisa Clínica Evandro Chagas (IPEC) - Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. onetohec@ipec.fiocruz.br
authors.forename: Manoel Paes
authors.initials: MP
authors.lastname: de Oliveira-Neto
authors.forename: Manuela
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Da Silva
authors.forename: Paulo Cezar
authors.initials: PC
authors.lastname: Fialho Monteiro
authors.forename: Márcia
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lazera
authors.forename: Rodrigo
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: de Almeida Paes
authors.forename: Anna Beatriz
authors.initials: AB
authors.lastname: Novellino
authors.forename: Tulia
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Cuzzi
mesh_terms: D000293:Adolescent; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007121:Immunocompetence; D009089:Mucor / Q000145:classification / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D009091:Mucormycosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology*; D013848:Thigh