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Case Number : Case 2431 - 25 October 2019 Posted By: Dr. Richard Carr

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Male Adult. Forearm. Spot diagnosis c/o Dr Neil Catterall


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Krishnakumar subramanian

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deep fungal infection

 ? Blastomycosis

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Budding yeast...I would agree with Krishnakumar. I'm not familiar with these infections.

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Dr. Richard Carr

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I've ask for another image to be posted.

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Krishnakumar subramanian

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sir usually we depend on culture or sequencing data to know the fungus type. if it is not the usual deep fungus which we see routinely

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Dr. Richard Carr

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There is a nice x40 image with a clue. Hopefully it will get posted.

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The fungus shows narrow based budding. I think it's paracoccidiodomycosis. 

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Yes. Asteroid body. Agree with Sporotrichosis.

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Dr. Richard Carr

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Yes this is a wonderful case of sporotrichosis (a big absenteee from my slide collection and personal experience). Neil Catterall was kind enough bring a case over when he visited earlier this year (in response to my plea to have a case 1745 3 Feb 2017)  - and this is the first time it has been seen on Spot Diagnosis!!! There were very few organisms (despite 4 large TS from a generous skin biopsy) and as you can see they are in the centre of pustulating granulomas. I do remember reading in Weedon many moons ago it was one of the few indications for serial sections on a biopsy (to find the asteroid body in the centre of a pustulating granuloma. This case also has rather strking follicular pseudoepitheliomatous hyperplasia. 

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Krishnakumar subramanian

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Thanks for the points shared sir

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