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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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IX. Mycetomas

Case 55. Eumycetoma / Fibrosarcoma protuberans

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Fig. 55-A1

Fig. 55-A1
Fig. 55-A1: Eumycetoma

A patient from Mérida / Venezuela discovered on the heel of his foot a pooly limited tumorous nodule with a localized hemorrhage. Before we describe the other details of the mycetomas we would like to give a definition of this disease. Its name earlier was used only for fungal infections, but nowadays after a reclassification the name is applied for bacterial infections also while the name mycetoma is maintained. They occur in three types and this tumor-like lesion is situated exclusively in the skin, eventually with formation of fistulae. In the abscesses present in the dermis are found the so called grains (accumulations of germs).

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Facultad de Medicina
Universidad de Los Andes
Merida - Venezuela