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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

 List of cases

 References
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I. Leishmaniasis

Case 8. Chronic mucocutaneous Leishmaniasis / Lethal midline granuloma

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Fig. 8-B1

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Fig. 8-B1
Fig. 8-B1: Lethal midline granuloma

In this the nose is completely destroyed and necrotic. The disease developed seven months earlier with a rhinitis. Later, bleedings and ulcers started, without any response to the medical therapy. After being hospitalized heavy bleedings occurred and the patient died. No autopsy could be performed.


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Facultad de Medicina
Universidad de Los Andes
Merida - Venezuela