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Cutaneous Mycobacterium chelonae infection extending distally in a hemodialysed patient
Athanassios Kolivras1, Pierre-André De Berdt, Anne Theunis
1Department of Dermatology, University Hospitals St-Pierre and Brugmann, Brussels, Belgium. kolivrasathangr@hotmail.com
Dermatology (Basel, Switzerland)
|June 22, 2002
Abstract:
We report a case of a cutaneous Mycobacterium chelonae infection on the dorsum of the forearm of a patient undergoing chronic hemodialysis. The infection showed a linear and distal extension. This unusual distal dissemination was apparently secondary to a venous reflux, a circulatory repercussion of the patient's arteriovenous fistula.