Embolus, Septic, Candidiasis - DermAtlas

Contributor

Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

embolus, septic candidiasis

Body Site

back neck

Age

14 months

Pigmentation

light

Organization

Color

red

Morphology

papulosquamous (bump, scale)

Pattern

Comments

Ten days after receiving high dose chemotherapy, a 14 month girl developed high fevers and purpuric papules on her trunk and extremities. A skin biopsy demonstrated yeast in dermal blood vessels, and multiple blood cultures as well as a piece of the skin biopsy grew Candida.

Description

disseminated 3-5 mm red nonblanching papules

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1/13/2001 15:28:16

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