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Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in the Dorsal Skin of Hamsters: a Useful Model for the Screening of Antileishmanial Drugs
Published on: April 21, 2012
Basal cell carcinoma superimposed on a cutaneous leishmaniasis lesion in an immunocompromised patient
Ali Asilian1, Iman Momeni, Parastou Khosravani
1Professor, Department of Dermatology, School of Medicine, Isfahan University of Medical Sciences, Isfahan, Iran.
Abstract:
Leishmaniasis is a protozoan infection due to organisms of the genus Leishmania. The differential diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis includes arthropod bites, basal cell carcinoma (BCC) and other malignancies. BCC is the most common form of skin cancer. We present a case of cutaneous leishmaniasis resistant to standard intralesional glucantime injection in an immunocompromised patient, which was proved to be BCC after surgical excision.
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