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Leopoldo F. Montes, MD; R. Edward Carter, MD; Nedra Moreland; Ricardo Ceballos, MD

JAMA. 1968;204(5):351-354.

Abstract
Although the coexistence of thymus disease with candidiasis has been mentioned, the association of generalized cutaneous candidiasis with thymoma has apparently been documented only once before. This report describes such an association in a second patient in whom another thymus-related disease, diffuse myopathy, was also present. Surgical removal of the tumor, a thymoma of the spindle cell variety, did not result in improvement of the myopathy nor of the candidiasis. Cutaneous lesions of candidiasis responded to local anticandida agents, but they relapsed when the therapy was discontinued and showed a tendency to worsen when steroid therapy for the myositis was started. It would appear that thymoma should be added to the list of abnormal general states that may predispose to candidiasis.

Author Affiliations
From the Department of Dermatology, Baylor University College of Medicine, and the Texas Institute for Rehabilitation and Research, Houston (Miss Moreland and Dr. Carter) and the departments of dermatology and pathology, University of Alabama Medical Center, Birmingham, Ala (Drs. Montes and Ceballos).

Footnotes
Read before the Section of Dermatology at the 116th annual convention of the American Medical Association, Atlantic City, NJ, June 19, 1967.

Reprint requests to University of Alabama Medical Center, Birmingham, Ala 35233 (Dr. Montes).

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