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Cutaneous Nocardiosis Developing around Gravel Inserted during a Traffic Injury
Author(s) -
Gyotoku Takashi,
Kayashima Kenichi,
Nishimoto Katsutaro,
Ono Tomomichi
Publication year - 2002
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.1346-8138.2002.tb00227.x
Subject(s) - mycetoma , nocardiosis , nocardia , medicine , minocycline , lesion , nocardia infections , surgery , foot (prosody) , traffic accident , trimethoprim , road traffic accident , forensic engineering , geology , road traffic , antibiotics , art , biology , microbiology and biotechnology , paleontology , literature , engineering , bacteria , transport engineering
A 65‐year‐old Japanese woman with nocardial mycetoma which developed five years after a compound bone fracture of the left foot due to a traffic accident was reported. During this accident, two small pieces of gravel had entered her foot. Nocardia asteroides , which had been attached to the gravel, was probably inserted 5 years previously during the trauma. The lesion did not respond to oral minocycline and trimethoprim‐sulfamethoxazole and was finally removed surgically; she has been free from recurrences for one year, of follow‐up.