Molluscum Contagiosum Masquerading: Diagnosing Giant Lesions in an Unfamiliar Territory-Reference-Cited by-同舟云学术

Molluscum Contagiosum Masquerading: Diagnosing Giant Lesions in an Unfamiliar Territory

Published:2024-02-08 Issue:5 Volume:43 Page:e185-e187
ISSN:0891-3668
Container-title:Pediatric Infectious Disease Journal
language:en
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Author:

Yaprak Bayrak Busra¹^ORCID,Oncel Selim²^ORCID,Atayev Sazak³^ORCID,Eruyar Ahmet Tugrul¹^ORCID,Yumuk Zeki⁴^ORCID,Etus Volkan³^ORCID

Affiliation:

1. From the Department of Pathology, Faculty of Medicine

2. Division of Pediatric Infectious Diseases, Department of Pediatrics and Child Health, Faculty of Medicine

3. Department of Neurosurgery, Faculty of Medicine

4. Department of Microbiology and Clinical Microbiology, Faculty of Medicine, Kocaeli University, Kocaeli, Turkey.

Abstract

Molluscum contagiosum virus commonly affects children, causing localized skin diseases. We present the case of an immunocompetent 8-month-old patient with multiple giant molluscum contagiosum lesions. Lesions had a cup-like shape and were characterized by eosinophilic inclusion bodies on the keratinocytes as well as inverted lobules of hyperplastic squamous epithelium. It is crucial to identify this clinical variation to avoid unnecessary severe treatments.

Publisher

Ovid Technologies (Wolters Kluwer Health)

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