Iranian Journal of Parasitology (Jun 2009)

Cutaneous Leishmaniasis with Unusual Presentation

  • R Yaghoobi,
  • S Maraghi,
  • N Bagherani

Journal volume & issue
Vol. 4, no. 2

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This case report states a 25-year-old woman, residing in the city of Dezfool, Khuzestan Province, south of Iran with the diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis in June 2008. Her skin lesion had de­veloped from 8 months earlier as a nodule on her left arm, 1×3 cm in diameter. Because of sever­ity of the lesion, we prescribed meglumine antimoniate intralesionally with giving up her breast feeding. After 6 months follow-up, no recurrence was seen.

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