Necrotizing cellulitis caused by Apophysomyces elegans at a patch test site.
AMERICAN JOURNAL OF CONTACT DERMATITIS : OFFICIAL JOURNAL OF THE AMERICAN CONTACT DERMATITIS SOCIETY 2002;
13:140-2. [PMID:
12165933]
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Abstract
Plant material occasionally is used in patch testing to diagnose contact dermatitis. Serious adverse reactions to this practice are extremely uncommon. The authors report on a 68-year-old non-insulin-dependent diabetic gentleman with hand dermatitis in whom severe necrotizing cellulitis developed caused by Apophysomyces elegans, a subtype of mucormycosis, at the site of a patch test to a snapdragon plant from his garden.
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