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 Introduction

Tropical Diseases:

I Leishmaniasis
II Paracoccidioidomycosis
III Blastomycocis
IV Chromoblastomycosis
V Lepra
VI Sporotrichosis
VII Histoplasmosis
VIII Rhinosporidiosis
IX Mycetomas
X Rhinoscleroma
XI Chagasdisease
XII Actinomycosis
XIII Mucormycosis
XIV Amoebiasis
XV Protothecosis
XVI Lobomycosis
XVII Phaeohyphomycosis
XVIII Pruritus actinicus
XIX Bite of snake
XX Coccidioidomycosis

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IV. Chromoblastomycosis

Case 33: Chromoblastomycosis / Carcinoma

Previus Case 32

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Chromoblastomycosis

Carcinoma

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Fig.33-A1
Chromoblatomycosis

Several fingers show a fungal infection.

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Fig.33-B1
Carcinoma

The tumor in this produced extensive haemorrhages on the fingers.

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Fig.33-A2
Chromoblastomycosis

The culture colony of the fungus which caused this infection, the species Fonsecaea pedrosoi, is shown here, 35 days after inoculation.

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Fig.33-B2
Carcinoma

Histologically it was a pseudoglandular spinocellular carcinoma.

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Fig.33-A3
Chromoblastomycosis

The microscopical aspect of one of the species which cause this mycosis in a culture, here a species of the genus Cladosporium.


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Facultad de Medicina
Universidad de Los Andes
Merida - Venezuela