Cutaneous mucormycosis in a young, immunocompetent girl.
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).
de Oliveira-Neto
Manoel Paes
MP
Instituto de Pesquisa Clínica Evandro Chagas (IPEC) - Fundação Oswaldo Cruz. onetohec@ipec.fiocruz.br
Da Silva
Manuela
M
Fialho Monteiro
Paulo Cezar
PC
Lazera
Márcia
M
de Almeida Paes
Rodrigo
R
Novellino
Anna Beatriz
AB
Cuzzi
Tulia
T
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