Mycobacterium Infection, Atypical, Mycobacterium Infection - DermAtlas

Contributor

Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

mycobacterium infection, atypical mycobacterium infection

Body Site

leg thigh

Age

6 years

Pigmentation

light

Organization

Color

purple

Morphology

plaqulous (plaque / nodule / tumor)

Pattern

solitary

Comments

This healthy 6-year-old girl developed a slowly enlarging minimally tender violaceous plaque on her right thigh. A culture from material aspirated from the plaque grow Mycobacterium chelonei. She was treated with clarithromycin for 3 months with some improvement of the lesion. Her sister developed a smaller lesion that never progressed and began to resolve 3 months later without treatment.

Description

fibrotic infiltrated violaceous stellate plaque

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3/17/2004 8:20:30

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