| Autor: |
Bolton JG; Branch Medical Clinic, Marine Corps Air Station, PO Box 452002, San Diego, CA 92145, USA. joanna.bolton@med.navy.mil, Galeckas KJ, Satter EK |
| Jazyk: |
angličtina |
| Zdroj: |
Cutis [Cutis] 2010 Jan; Vol. 85 (1), pp. 37-42. |
| Abstrakt: |
Cat-scratch disease (CSD) and bacillary angiomatosis (BA) are caused by a gram-negative bacilli classified under the genus Bartonella (formerly Rochalimaea). Patient history, symptoms, and histopathology often fall along a continuum; therefore, both conditions should be considered in the differential diagnosis. We report a case of an 83-year-old immunocompetent woman who presented with a pyogenic granuloma-like lesion on her dorsal left wrist. The histologic differential diagnosis included an inoculation site from a cat scratch infected with Bartonella and BA. Because the patient had only 1 lesion at the site of a prior cat scratch, the lesion was diagnosed as inoculation bartonellosis. We also review the epidemiologic, clinical, and histopathologic features of CSD and BA. |
| Databáze: |
MEDLINE |
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