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Primary Cutaneous Histoplasmosis in Papuloerythroderma (Ofuji)
Author(s) -
Ohnishi Kazunori,
Nagai Yayoi,
Okada Katsuyuki,
Ishikawa Osamu,
Miyachi Yoshiki
Publication year - 1994
Publication title -
the journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.9
H-Index - 65
eISSN - 1346-8138
pISSN - 0385-2407
DOI - 10.1111/j.1346-8138.1994.tb01798.x
Subject(s) - histoplasmosis , medicine , dermatology , mycosis , histoplasma , immunology , pathology , histoplasma capsulatum
We report the first Japanese patient with primary cutaneous histoplasmosis who was infected inside Japan. He was not an immunocompromised host but his cutaneous lesions developed on preexisting papuloerythroderma (Ofuji). The long‐term topical corticosteroid treatment for papuloerythroderma, which could have suppressed the local immunological defence system of the skin, might have been responsible for the histoplasma infection in the present case.