Open AccessLate complication after tropic storm accident: subcutaneous and intracranial actinomycetoma
Author(s) -
Verma Shyam B,
Nayak Suresh,
Pasale Ravindra K,
Kittner Thomas,
Wollina Uwe
Publication year - 2008
Publication title -
international wound journal
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.867
H-Index - 63
eISSN - 1742-481X
pISSN - 1742-4801
DOI - 10.1111/j.1742-481x.2008.00456.x
Subject(s) - medicine , scalp , folliculitis , dermatology , magnetic resonance imaging , complication , surgery , radiology
We report a 53‐year‐old farmer who developed subcutaneous and cerebral masses 24 years after penetrating trauma during a tropic storm. Computed tomography scans, magnetic resonance imaging and histopathology disclosed actinomycetoma, a disease that rarely develops after trauma and is only occasionally seen with intracranial manifestation. Clinically, the cutaneous manifestation resembled acne keloidalis nuchae or dissecting folliculitis of the scalp. He was treated by neurosurgery and antibiosis.