Paediatric cutaneous blastomycosis: a rare case diagnosed on FNAC.
Blastomycosis, usually presenting as pneumonia, is more common in adults than in children. Moreover, cutaneous blastomycosis is quite uncommon in children. We describe a case of cutaneous blastomycosis in an 8-year-old boy who presented with multiple hyperkeratotic verrucous plaques where diagnosis was made on fine-needle aspiration cytology, and the infection responded well to oral itraconazole therapy with reduction in number of spores and size of lesions.
Shukla
Shailaja
S
Department of Pathology, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Smt. Sucheta Kriplani Hospital, New Delhi, India. shukla_shailaja@yahoo.com
Singh
Smita
S
Jain
Manjula
M
Kumar Singh
Sanjeet
S
Chander
Ram
R
Kawatra
Neha
N
D044963:Biopsy, Fine-Needle; D001758:Blastomyces; D001759:Blastomycosis / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy* / Q000473:pathology; D002648:Child; D006801:Humans; D017964:Itraconazole / Q000008:administration & dosage / Q000627:therapeutic use*; D008297:Male
D017964:Itraconazole