title: Paediatric cutaneous blastomycosis: a rare case diagnosed on FNAC.
abstract: 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.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Lady Hardinge Medical College and Smt. Sucheta Kriplani Hospital, New Delhi, India. shukla_shailaja@yahoo.com
authors.forename: Shailaja
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Shukla
authors.forename: Smita
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Singh
authors.forename: Manjula
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Jain
authors.forename: Sanjeet
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Kumar Singh
authors.forename: Ram
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: Chander
authors.forename: Neha
authors.initials: N
authors.lastname: Kawatra
mesh_terms: 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
chemical_list: D017964:Itraconazole