1. Oral phaeohyphomycosis in a patient with squamocellular carcinoma of the lip: second case report
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Armando Marsden Lacerda Filho, Suanni Lemos de Andrade, André Ferraz Goiana Leal, Maria do Carmo Abreu e Lima, Danielle Patrícia Cerqueira Macêdo, and Rejane Pereira Neves
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Microbiological Techniques ,0301 basic medicine ,Septate ,medicine.medical_specialty ,Oral phaeohyphomycosis ,medicine.medical_treatment ,lcsh:QR1-502 ,Antifungal drug ,Squamocellular carcinoma ,Microbiology ,lcsh:Microbiology ,Resection ,Lesion ,030207 dermatology & venereal diseases ,03 medical and health sciences ,0302 clinical medicine ,medicine ,Carcinoma ,Humans ,Aged, 80 and over ,Microscopy ,Histocytochemistry ,business.industry ,Histopathological analysis ,medicine.disease ,Lip ,Surgery ,Radiation therapy ,Phaeohyphomycosis ,stomatognathic diseases ,Treatment Outcome ,030104 developmental biology ,Medical Microbiology ,Lip Neoplasms ,Carcinoma, Squamous Cell ,Female ,medicine.symptom ,business ,Brazil - Abstract
This communication reports the second known case of oral phaeohyphomycosis in a patient with squamocellular carcinoma of the lip. The patient, an 82-year-old black woman, a former smoker (for more than 30 years), suffering from an ulcerous vegetative lesion in the middle third of the lower lip for approximately 12 months. The result of the histopathological analysis indicated carcinoma, with well-differentiated keratinized squamous cells and the presence of septate mycelial filaments. In the direct mycological examination, thick and dematiaceous septate mycelial filaments were observed. After the resection surgery, the patient did not need to use an antifungal drug to treat the phaeohyphomycosis, and no follow-up radiotherapy was needed to treat the squamocellular carcinoma. We stress that the presence of the squamocellular lesion of the lip was a possible contributing factor to the infection.
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- 2017
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