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[Necrotizing vasculitis induced by cytomegalovirus in a woman with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome]
G Ghigliotti1, A Canessa, A Pastorino
1Division de Dermatologie de l'Hôpital San Martino, Gênes.
Annales De Dermatologie Et De Venereologie
|January 1, 1994
Abstract
Introduction:
Skin lesions induced by cytomegalovirus are rare and usually non-characteristic.
Case Report:
A 32-year-old women with AIDS developed about twenty unpainful ulceronecrotic lesions on the extension aspect of the members and the trunk. Histology examination and in situ hybridization favoured cytomegalovirus infection of the skin.
Discussion:
Despite the exceptional nature of this case, this particular clinical presentation should be recognized as it could be useful for early diagnosis of cytomegalovirus infection in immunodepressed subjects.