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Bacillary Angiomatosis in an Immunocompetent Child with a Grafted Traumatic Wound
Author(s) -
Turgut Mehmet,
Alabaz Derya,
Karakaş Mehmet,
Kavak Meric,
Aksaray Necmi,
Alhan Emre,
Çevlik Filiz,
Tuncer İlhan
Publication year - 2004
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.1346-8138.2004.tb00613.x
Subject(s) - bacillary angiomatosis , angiomatosis , medicine , cats , pathology , biopsy , pathogenesis , dermatology , bartonella henselae , immunology , serology , antibody
Bacillary angiomatosis is an infectious disease which usually develops in immunocompromised patients. Contact with cats is implicated in its pathogenesis. We report a seven‐year‐old immunocompetent boy with bacillary angiomatosis without a history of direct contact with cats. The clinical diagnosis of bacillary angiomatosis was made following histopathological examination of a biopsy sample from the infected facial wound, in the vicinity of which angiomatous lesions had developed. Surprisingly, similar lesions also appeared at the donor site of the skin graft which was grafted on the facial wound. This case demonstrates that bacillary angiomatosis may also be seen in immunocompetent patients and that it may contaminate wounds without the intermediary of cats.