Eumycotic mycetoma
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Introduction.
Fungi of several genera, including Madurella, Fusarium and
Acremonium, grow in deeper skin tissues after traumatic inoculation, resulting
in local inflammation, disfiguring growths, and damage to muscle and bone.
Summary
- Cause: Various fungi (Madurella, Fusarium)
- Microscopy: Hyphate fungi
- Symptoms: local painless nodule at site of injury develops into
large fibrotic area of inflammation with tissue (bone, muscle) damage and
disfigurement of the local body part.
- Transmission: traumatic injury
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- Complications: Muscle + bone damage locally
- Pathogenesis: inflammation
- Treatment: Amputation; drug treatments rarely effective
References/Links
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