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Isolated cutaneous aspergillosis in an acute lymphoblastic leukemia patient after allogeneic stem cell
Özlem Guzel Tunçcan1, Şahika Zeynep Aki, Nalan Akyürek
1Departments of Infectious Diseases, Faculty of Medicine, Gazi University Ankara, Turkey. oguzel@gazi.edu.tr
Abstract:
Cutaneous aspergillosis is very rare and occurs predominantly in immunocompromised patients including transplant recipients. We report a 26-year-old male with acute lymphoblastic leukemia who developed cutaneous aspergillosis after undergoing combined immunosuppressive treatment including corticosteroid, cyclosporine A, mychophenolate mofetil and mesenchymal stem cells for steroid refractory skin acute graft versus host disease after myeloablative haematopoietic stem cell transplantation. The patient was treated with oral voriconazole therapy and recovered partially.
