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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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I. Leishmaniasis

Case 11. Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis / Secondary Syphilis

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Fig. 11-A1

Fig. 11-A1
Fig. 11-A1: Mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis

A 27 -years old man from Socopó, a town in the West of the State Barinas comes to an Ear-Nose-Throat specialist presenting nasal ardor and bleeding together with a mucous secretion and hoarseness. The patient had been treated with several antibiotics without any improvement. Looking at the mucosa of the oral cavity a marked diffuse reddening is found, accompanied by several slightly elevated foci involving the palatal velum, the uvula and the soft palate.

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Facultad de Medicina
Universidad de Los Andes
Merida - Venezuela