Authors: Tokio Iwatsu
Publish Date: 1988/12/01
Volume: 124, Issue: 12, Pages: 1822-1825
Abstract
• A 77yearold woman had had a slowly spreading lesion of five years duration on her left cheek The lesion consisted of sharply demarcated darkred plaques with infiltration A biopsy specimen from the lesion showed mixedcell granulomatous infiltration in the upper to middle dermis Hyphae were observed in the granulomatous tissue Alternaria tenuissima was isolated from a biopsy specimen Antimycotic susceptibility test with amphotericin B ketoconazole and flucytosine revealed that the isolate was sensitive to the former two drugs The lesion was treated with intralesional infiltration of amphotericin B
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