Bacillary angiomatosis in an immunocompetent child with a grafted traumatic wound

Turgut M., Alabaz D., Karakas M., Kavak M., Aksaray N., Alhan E., ...Daha Fazla

JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY, cilt.31, sa.10, ss.844-847, 2004 (SCI-Expanded) identifier identifier identifier

  • Yayın Türü: Makale / Tam Makale
  • Cilt numarası: 31 Sayı: 10
  • Basım Tarihi: 2004
  • Doi Numarası: 10.1111/j.1346-8138.2004.tb00613.x
  • Dergi Adı: JOURNAL OF DERMATOLOGY
  • Derginin Tarandığı İndeksler: Science Citation Index Expanded (SCI-EXPANDED), Scopus
  • Sayfa Sayıları: ss.844-847
  • Çukurova Üniversitesi Adresli: Hayır

Özet

Bacillary angiomatosis is an infectious disease which usually develops in immunocompromised patients. Contact with cats is implicated in its pathogenesis. We report a seven-year-old immunocompetent boy with bacillary angiomatosis without a history of direct contact with cats. The clinical diagnosis of bacillary angiomatosis was made following histopathological examination of a biopsy sample from the infected facial wound, in the vicinity of which angiomatous lesions had developed. Surprisingly, similar lesions also appeared at the donor site of the skin graft which was grafted on the facial wound. This case demonstrates that bacillary angiomatosis may also be seen in immunocompetent patients and that it may contaminate wounds without the intermediary of cats.