@article{10868, keywords = {Diagnosis, Differential, Humans, Leg Ulcer, leprosy, Male, Middle Aged, Mycobacterium Infections, Mycobacterium avium, Mycobacterium lepraemurium, Skin Diseases, Infectious}, author = {Love G L}, title = {Nontuberculous mycobacterial skin infection resembling lepromatous leprosy.}, abstract = {
A leg ulcer in a 52-year-old renal transplant patient yielded foamy histiocytes containing acid-fast bacilli subsequently identified as a Runyon group III Mycobacterium. Skin infection with these organisms is unusual, and the histologic appearance in this case suggested lepromatous leprosy.
}, year = {1987}, journal = {Southern medical journal}, volume = {80}, pages = {1060-1}, month = {1987 Aug}, issn = {0038-4348}, doi = {10.1097/00007611-198708000-00033}, language = {eng}, }