Eumycotic mycetoma

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
• Complications: Muscle + bone damage locally
• Pathogenesis: inflammation
• Treatment: Amputation; drug treatments rarely effective

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