title: A woman with a painful eruption following liver transplantation.
abstract: A 29-year-old woman with hepatitis C presented 2 years after an orthotopic liver transplant with several weeks of fevers, abdominal pain, nausea, and a painful ulcerated nodular eruption on her abdomen and lower extremities. The patient was evaluated, and her case is presented and the differential discussed.
authors.affiliation: Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California, Los Angeles, Harbor Medical Center, Torrance, CA 90502 USA. darcy.wooten@ucsf.edu
authors.forename: D
authors.initials: D
authors.lastname: Wooten
authors.forename: J D
authors.initials: JD
authors.lastname: Feramisco
authors.forename: T W
authors.initials: TW
authors.lastname: Mully
authors.forename: L P
authors.initials: LP
authors.lastname: Fox
mesh_terms: D000005:Abdomen / Q000473:pathology*; D015746:Abdominal Pain; D000328:Adult; D000946:Antigens, Fungal / Q000302:isolation & purification; D003453:Cryptococcosis / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D003455:Cryptococcus neoformans / Q000276:immunology / Q000302:isolation & purification*; D003881:Dermatomycoses / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology; D005076:Exanthema / Q000473:pathology*; D017809:Fatal Outcome; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007866:Leg / Q000473:pathology*; D016031:Liver Transplantation / Q000009:adverse effects*; D012867:Skin / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology
chemical_list: D000946:Antigens, Fungal