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Widespread cutaneous candidiasis and tinea infection masking mycosis fungoides

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A 71-year-old female with a widespread double mycotic infection caused byC. Albicans andT. rubrum was discovered to be suffering from mycosis fungoides. Clinically she was found to have large, polycyclic erythematous plaques with scaly, slightly infiltrated borders, covering almost all areas of the glabrous skin, and also involving the scalp (with no hair penetration), the soles and palms, toe-webs, finger and toe nails; there was also perleche and oral thrush. Cultures yieldedC. albicans from most of the skin lesions, from the scalp, mouth, finger nails and urine and stool specimens, andT. rubrum from intermingled skin specimens, from the palms and soles and toe-nails. Blood culture was negative as were intracutaneous tests with fungal antigens and tuberculin. Histological examination confirmed the fungal invasion of the horny layer and at the same time revealed an underlying pathologic picture of mycosis fungoides, the lesions having been masked by the mycotic eruption. Intensive cytostatic and antifungal therapy led to a transient improvement but shortly thereafter there was a relapse of the fungal and lymphoproliferative manifestations and the patient died in septic shock.

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Une femme, ag’ee 71 ans, ayant une double infection mycosique due àC. albicans et auT. rubrum, a ’et’e d’ec’el’ee qu’elle souffrait aussi d’un mycosis fungoïde. Au point de vue clinique elle avait de larges plaques ’eryth’emato-squameuses, polycicliques, aux bords l’egèrement infiltr’es, r’epandues sur une grande partie de la peau glabre, paumes et plantes inclus, et affectant aussi le cuir chevelu (sans p’en’etration des poils), les ongles des doigts et des orteils. Les cultures ont permis d’isoler leC. albicans à partir de la majorit’e des l’esions de la peau et du cuir chevelu, des ongles des doigts, ainsi que de la bouche, de l’urine et des selles. On a trouv’e aussiT. rubrum dans des l’esions cutan’ees entremêl’ees aux precedentes, dans la r’egion palmaire et plantaire et dans les ongles des orteils. Les testes intradermiques aux antigens fongiques et à tuberculine ont ’et’e n’egatifs, ainsi que les h’emocultures. L’examen histologique a montr’e l’invasion de la couche corn’ee par les champignons et en même temps a d’ecouvert un tableau pathologique sous-jacent d’un mycosis fungoïde, ayant ’et’e masqu’e par l’’eruption fongique. Un traitement intensif par des produits cytostatiques et antifongiques a men’e à une am’elioration temporaire, mais brièvement après on a assist’e à une r’echute rapide des manifestations lymphoprolif’eratives et fongiques et la malade a d’ec’ed’e à la suite d’un ’etat septique. Mycopathologia 80. 83–88 (1982). 0301-486x 82 0802-0083/S1.20. © Dr W. Junk Publishers. The Hague. Printed in The Netherlands.

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Alteras, I., David, M., Feuerman, E.J. et al. Widespread cutaneous candidiasis and tinea infection masking mycosis fungoides. Mycopathologia 80, 83–88 (1982). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02993848

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