Indian Journal of Dermatology (Jan 2014)

Two cases of multiple subcutaneous cystic phaeohyphomycosis in immunocompromised patients with a rare causative organism

  • Karkuzhali Ponnuswamy,
  • Yogambal Muthureddy,
  • Karthik Sigamani

DOI
https://doi.org/10.4103/0019-5154.135527
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 59, no. 4
pp. 421 – 421

Abstract

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Phaeohyphomycosis comprises a spectrum of mycotic infectious diseases caused by heterogeneous group of phaeoid fungi. A subcutaneous cystic swelling with histological hallmark of pigmented hyphae in tissues accompanied by pyogenic granuloma is diagnostic of phaeohyphomycosis. We present two cases of phaeohyphomycosis in 65- and 55-year-old male agriculturalists, who presented with multiple, cystic soft-tissue masses involving extremities. Culture was done in one case and the specific organism was identified as Aureobasidium pullulans.

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