African Immigrant with Weight Loss and Disseminated Skin Lesions
Author(s) -
P. Maćkowiak,
Barbara Hasse,
Andreas Kronenberg
Publication year - 2003
Publication title -
clinical infectious diseases
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 3.44
H-Index - 336
eISSN - 1537-6591
pISSN - 1058-4838
DOI - 10.1086/377278
Subject(s) - medicine , weight loss , immigration , dermatology , pathology , obesity , archaeology , history
Figure 1. Upper left, Photograph showing skin lesions on arm and shoulder of patient. Upper right, CT scan of neck revealing multiple enlarged lymph nodes. Lower left, Detail of a skin ulcer on forehead of patient. Lower right, Histologic examination of skin biopsy specimen showing perivascular infiltrates of neutrophil granulocytes and ovoid yeasts (diameter, 15 mm) and a thick cell wall (periodic acid–Schiff stain; original magnification, 400).
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