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An unusual cause of skin “tumours” in a renal transplant recipient
European Journal of Dermatology. Volume 15, Number 5, 401-3, September-October 2005, Clinical report
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Author(s) : Anshu Awasthi, Ritambhra Nada, Somesh Gupta, Vinay Sakhuja, Kusum Joshi
Summary : Renal transplant recipients on immunosuppression are at increased risk of developing skin cancers as well as opportunistic infections though it is usually not difficult to clinically differentiate cutaneous fungal infections from skin tumours. We describe a case of tinea capitis in a renal transplant recipient presenting with such an exuberant inflammatory reaction and nodule formation that it was clinically mistaken to be an appendigeal tumor.
Keywords : adnexal tumor, renal transplant, tinea capitis

An unusual cause of skin “tumours” in a renal transplant recipient