Multiple cutaneous fusarial skin lesions

Multiple cutaneous fusarial skin lesions on the abdomen of an 8-year-old girl who experienced relapse of leukemia. The infection started as paranasal sinusitis, which was followed by pneumonia and skin lesions. Patient died 30 days later with persistent fusariosis and leukemia.

Courtesy of Dr. Flavio Queiroz-Telles, University Hospital, Universidade Federal do Parana, Curitiba, Brazil. Reproduced from: Nucci M, Anaissie E. Cutaneous infection by Fusarium species in healthy and immuncompromised hosts: Implications for diagnosis and management. Clin Infect Dis 2002; 35:909 by permission of Oxford University Press. Copyright © 2002.

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