Nonhealing skin lesions in a sailor and a journalist returning from Iraq.
Cleve Clin J Med
; 72(2): 93-4, 96, 98-9 passim, 2005 Feb.
Article
em En
| MEDLINE
| ID: mdl-15757166
ABSTRACT
US health care providers who are not familiar with cutaneous leishmaniasis may now begin to encounter more patients with this challenging entity as military personnel return from rotations in Iraq or Afghanistan. Diagnosis requires a skin scraping, aspiration, or biopsy, followed by examination by an experienced microscopist or pathologist. Demonstration of the parasite DNA by PCR or culture in special media can also be used to confirm the diagnosis. Sodium stibogluconate is the mainstay of therapy, but other options for selected cases include topical thermal or cryotherapy treatment and oral triazole compounds. Assistance is available through the CDC and, for Department of Defense beneficiaries, certain military facilities.
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Base de dados:
MEDLINE
Assunto principal:
Leishmaniose Cutânea
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Medicina Militar
Tipo de estudo:
Diagnostic_studies
Limite:
Adult
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Female
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Humans
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Male
País como assunto:
Asia
Idioma:
En
Ano de publicação:
2005
Tipo de documento:
Article