Disseminated Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Colombia: Report of 27 Cases

dc.creatorVélez Bernal, Iván Darío
dc.creatorJiménez Echavarría, Alejandra María
dc.creatorVásquez Hincapié, Daniel Alberto
dc.creatorRobledo Restrepo, Sara María
dc.date2022-11-20T13:33:24Z
dc.date2022-11-20T13:33:24Z
dc.date2015
dc.date.accessioned2023-08-28T20:57:07Z
dc.date.available2023-08-28T20:57:07Z
dc.identifierVélez ID, Jiménez A, Vásquez D, Robledo SM. Disseminated Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Colombia: Report of 27 Cases. Case Rep Dermatol. 2015 Oct 7;7(3):275-86. doi: 10.1159/000441120.
dc.identifierhttps://hdl.handle.net/10495/32153
dc.identifier10.1159/000441120
dc.identifier1662-6567
dc.identifier.urihttps://repositorioslatinoamericanos.uchile.cl/handle/2250/8486536
dc.descriptionABSTRACT: Disseminated leishmaniasis (DL) is a poorly described disease that is frequently misdiagnosed as other clinical manifestations of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL) such as diffuse CL or postkala-azar dermal leishmaniasis. Twenty-seven cases of DL diagnosed between 1997 and 2015 are described. A higher prevalence was observed in men (mean age 32 years). The number of lesions per patient ranged from 12 to 294, distributed mainly in the upper extremities, face and trunk. The lesions were mostly plaques or nodules. Seven patients had nasal mucous damage, 74% of the patients were of mixed race, 92% lived in northwestern Colombia, and Leishmania (Viannia) panamensis was identified as the causative agent in 58% of cases. Eighteen patients recovered with pentavalent antimonial. The importance of distinguishing DL from those other clinical presentations is based on the fact that disseminated, diffuse and post-kala-azar CL are very different in etiology, clinical manifestations and response to treatment and prognosis.
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dc.languageeng
dc.publisherKarger Publishers
dc.publisherPrograma de Estudio y Control de Enfermedades Tropicales (PECET)
dc.publisherBasilea, Suiza
dc.relationCase. Rep. Dermatol.
dc.rightsinfo:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess
dc.rightshttp://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/2.5/co/
dc.rightshttp://purl.org/coar/access_right/c_abf2
dc.rightshttps://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/
dc.subjectLeishmaniasis Cutánea
dc.subjectLeishmaniasis, Cutaneous
dc.subjectLeishmaniasis Cutánea Difusa
dc.subjectLeishmaniasis, Diffuse Cutaneous
dc.subjectPost-kala-azar dermal leishmaniasis
dc.titleDisseminated Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Colombia: Report of 27 Cases
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dc.typehttps://purl.org/redcol/resource_type/ARTCASO
dc.typeReporte de caso


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