Alvarez-Rivero V, Hernandez-Castro R, Moreno-Coutiño G, Lozano-Platonoff A, et al.
Advances in skin & wound care. Date of publication 2020 Sep 1;volume 33(9):1-3.
1. Adv Skin Wound Care. 2020 Sep;33(9):1-3. doi:
10.1097/01.ASW.0000666908.88965.35.
Disseminated Sporotrichosis: An Important Differential Diagnosis for Venous
Ulcers.
Alvarez-Rivero V(1), Hernandez-Castro R, Moreno-Coutiño G, Lozano-Platonoff A.
Author information:
(1)Valeria Alvarez Rivero, MD, is Internal Medicine Resident, Hospital Ángeles
Metropolitano, Mexico City, Mexico. At the Dr. Manuel Gea González General
Hospital in Mexico City, Rigoberto Hernandez-Castro, PhD, DVM, MSc, is Research
Scientist and Head of Department; Gabriela Moreno-Coutiño, MD, is Attending
Physician, Mycology Department; and Adriana Lozano-Platonoff, MD, is Researcher,
Interdisciplinary Wound and Ostomy Care Center, Division of Dermatology. The
authors have disclosed no financial relationships related to this article.
Submitted May 22, 2019; accepted in revised form August 5, 2019.
The authors present the case of a 45-year-old immunosuppressed man with lower
extremity ulcers. Initially treated as venous ulcers, the wounds were later
correctly diagnosed as cutaneous disseminated sporotrichosis. After appropriate
treatment with systemic antifungals was initiated, the patient healed within 4
months.
DOI: 10.1097/01.ASW.0000666908.88965.35
PMID: 32813486 [Indexed for MEDLINE]
