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SUBMITTER: Gosch CS
PROVIDER: S-EPMC6221246 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Nov
REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature
Gosch Carina Scolari CS Resende Bruna Silva BS Amorim Célia Bastos CB Marques Cálita Pollyanna CP Pereira Ledice Inacia de Araújo LIA Pinto Sebastião Alves SA Uliana Silvia Reni Bortolin SRB Coelho Adriano Cappellazzo AC Ribeiro-Dias Fátima F Dorta Miriam Leandro ML
The American journal of tropical medicine and hygiene 20181101 5
The disseminated form of leishmaniasis is a serious and rare disease, being diagnosed in 2% of the cutaneous cases registered per year in Brazil. The main characteristic is the appearance of multiple pleomorphic lesions on the cutaneous surface. A 68-year-old male from the rural area of Tocantins, Brazil, presented atypical disseminated cutaneous leishmaniasis (ACL). The clinical course and histopathological and immunological findings presented a mixed pattern that hindered diagnosis and therape ...[more]