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Cutaneous leishmaniasis as a possible predisposing factor for skin malignancy
T A Morsy1, A M Mangoud, M M el-Sebai
1Department of Parasitology, Faculty of Medicine, Ain Shams University, Cairo, Egypt.
Journal of the Egyptian Society of Parasitology
|December 1, 1992
Abstract:
This paper reports a 13 year old Yemenian boy with cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL.). The histopathological picture of the CL lesions showed marked dysplasia indicating premalignancy. The possibility that CL as one of the predisposing factors for skin malignancy was discussed.