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Imaging in Tropical Dermatology • An. bras. dermatol. 89 (5) • Sep-Oct 2014 • https://doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20143008   copy

Dermoscopy assisting the diagnosis of mycetoma: case report and literature review * * Work performed at the Hospital Universitário Evangélico de Curitiba - Faculdade Evangélica do Paraná (HUEC-Fepar) - Curitiba (PR), Brazil.

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Mycetomas are a chronic skin infection characterized by perilesional edema, formation of sinus tracts, and discharge of purulent or seropurulent exudate containing grains. This report aims to demonstrate the clinical diagnosis (by dermoscopy) of a skin lesion that initially bared no clinical features of a mycetoma.

Acremonium; Dermoscopy; Mycetoma

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