1. Ecthyma gangrenosum mimicking acute invasive fungal sinusitis in an immunocompromised patient.
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Hekiert, Adrianna M., Cohen, Michael B., Montone, Kathleen T., Palmer, James N., and Govindaraj, Satish
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CONTAGIOUS ecthyma , *GANGRENE , *DERMATOMYCOSES , *PSEUDOMONAS aeruginosa infections , *PSEUDOMONAS aeruginosa , *CUTANEOUS manifestations of general diseases , *PSEUDOMONAS diseases , *ENDOSCOPY , *HISTOLOGY methodology , *HEMATOLOGIC malignancies , *DIFFERENTIAL diagnosis , *NOSE , *TOMOGRAPHY , *WHITE people , *SYMPTOMS , *IMMUNOCOMPROMISED patients , *DIAGNOSIS - Abstract
Ecthyma gangrenosum is a rare necrotizing cutaneous infection usually caused by Pseudomonas aeruginosa. We report a case of ecthyma gangrenosum presenting as a sinonasal eschar and mimicking acute invasive fungal sinusitis in an immunocompromised 39-year-old man with a hematologic malignancy. To the best of our knowledge, this represents the first case of ecthyma gangrenosum affecting the sinonasal mucosa to be reported in the literature. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]
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- 2010
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