title: Verrucous Onychomycosis Caused byCurvulariain a Patient with Congenital Pterygium.
abstract: A 57 year healthy farmer with congenital nail pterygium presented with a verrucous growth on nail bed since 8 months. He was not diabetic and HIV rapid card test negative. Our clinical diagnosis was chromoblastomycosis but culture showed growth of curvularia species on two occasions and histopathology showed hyphal and yeast forms of the pigmented fungus. After excision biopsy patient was started on oral itraconazole. This case is reported due to rarity of verrucous cutaneous lesions caused by curvularia in immunocompetent individuals.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Government Medical College, Kottayam, Kerala, India.
authors.forename: Mary
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Vineetha
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Government Medical College, Kottayam, Kerala, India.
authors.forename: Seena
authors.initials: S
authors.lastname: Palakkal
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Government Medical College, Kottayam, Kerala, India.
authors.forename: K
authors.initials: K
authors.lastname: Sobhanakumari
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, Government Medical College, Kottayam, Kerala, India.
authors.forename: M I
authors.initials: MI
authors.lastname: Celine
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, Government Medical College, Kottayam, Kerala, India.
authors.forename: V
authors.initials: V
authors.lastname: Letha
keywords: Congenital nail pterygium; Curvularia; itraconazole; verrucous nail bed growth