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Case report 860: Bacillary angiomatosis of the calcaneum
L P Omarini1, S K Loës, J Garcia
1Département de Radiologie, Hôpital Cantonal Universitaire de Genève, Switzerland.
Skeletal Radiology
|August 1, 1994
Abstract:
Bacillary angiomatosis (BA) is newly reported infectious disease observed mainly in HIV-infected patients, caused by a small gram-negative bacillus of the Rochalimea genus. From a purely dermatological presentation similar to that of Kaposi's sarcoma, it may evolve into a systemic disease. Bone lesions seem fairly frequent. We report a case of an isolated osteolytic lesion due to the BA bacillus.