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Lycopodium granuloma
M A Nadjem1, J H Graham, F B Johnson
1Department of Dermatopathology, Armed Forces Institute of Pathology, Washington, D.C. 20306-6000.
Journal of Cutaneous Pathology
|April 1, 1988
Abstract:
The spores of Lycopodium (L) clavatum were used as a component of a dusting powder in many hospitals during the 1920's and 1930's. When L spores enter surgical wounds a lesion clinically resembling tuberculosis or neoplasia may develop months or even years later. We recently encountered a case of L granuloma occurring in a patient 50 years after an appendectomy. Three additional cases found in the files of the AFIP are also reported.