 |
|
Disseminated Sporotrichosis
Terry K. Satterwhite, MD;
Woody V. Kageler, MD;
Richard H. Conklin, MD, PhD;
Benjamin L. Portnoy, MD;
Herbert L. DuPont, MD
JAMA. 1978;240(8):771-772.
|
|
| Since this article does not have an abstract, we have provided the first 150 words of the full text PDF and any section headings. |
|
|
|
EXTRACUTANEOUS sporotrichosis is an uncommon manifestation of this fungal infection. A patient with disseminated sporotrichosis had Sporotrichum schenckii in multiple sites, including skin, urine, bone marrow, and brain.
Report of a Case
A 60-year-old alcoholic man was admitted to the hospital with generalized weakness, progressive edema, ascites, and skin lesions. Two weeks before admission, he had noted painless erythematous lesions on his distal extremities that gradually became nodular and drained purulent bloody material. He had had no chills, fever, or headache.
He drank a fifth of whiskey each day. During the previous five years, he had been found to have ascites, abnormal results of liver function studies, esophageal varices, enlarged liver with patchy isotope uptake shown by liver scan, and macrocytic anemia. He denied exposure to animals, gardening, or trips into fields or woods; there was no known trauma or insect bites to his skin.
At the time of admission,
. . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]
Author Affiliations
From the Program in Infectious Diseases and Clinical Microbiology, University of Texas Medical School at Houston (Drs Satterwhite, Kageler, Conklin, and DuPont), and the Diagnostic Clinic of Houston (Dr Portnoy), Houston.
Footnotes
Reprint requests to University of Texas Medical School, 6400 W Cullen, Houston, TX 77030 (Dr Satterwhite).
 CiteULike  Connotea  Del.icio.us  Digg  Reddit  Technorati  Twitter
What's this?
|
