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An unusual cause of skin “tumours” in a renal transplant recipient Volume 15, issue 5, September-October 2005

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Department of Histopathology, Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research Chandigarh, India, 160012, Department of Dermatology, Venerology, and Leprology; Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research Chandigarh, India, 160012, Department of Nephrology; Postgraduate Institute of Medical Education & Research Chandigarh, India, 160012

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.