Title
Calcified bodies in new world cutaneous leishmaniasis
Date Issued
01 December 2011
Access level
metadata only access
Resource Type
journal article
Abstract
We report a case of a 9-year-old boy who presented with 2 lesions that were compatible clinically with cutaneous leishmaniasis of the New World. A skin biopsy showed tuberculoid granulomas with rounded calcified bodies. The diagnosis was supported by a positive leishmanin test and a positive polymerase chain reaction. The patient responded to specific treatment for leishmaniasis. These calcified bodies, described under different names in the literature (Michaelis-Gutmann bodies, Schaumann bodies, psammoma bodies, or conchoidal bodies), have been reported in an experimental leishmaniasis and, only once before, in a case of human leishmaniasis of the Old World. Copyright © 2011 by Lippincott Williams & Wilkins.
Start page
827
End page
830
Volume
33
Issue
8
Language
English
OCDE Knowledge area
Dermatología, Enfermedades venéreas Patología
Scopus EID
2-s2.0-82455213010
PubMed ID
Source
American Journal of Dermatopathology
ISSN of the container
01931091
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