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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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IX. Mycetomas

Case 56. Schizomycetoma / Carcinoma

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Fig. 56-A5

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Fig. 56-A5
Fig. 56-A5: Schizomycetoma

The GMS positive gr ains in this case are formed partly very irregularly. They were named earlier botryomycotic structures. Nowadays, however, they are called grains or schizomycetomas. "Schizo" refered to the partition of bacteria.

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Facultad de Medicina
Universidad de Los Andes
Merida - Venezuela