TY - JOUR
KW - Diagnosis, Differential
KW - Humans
KW - Leg Ulcer
KW - leprosy
KW - Male
KW - Middle Aged
KW - Mycobacterium Infections
KW - Mycobacterium avium
KW - Mycobacterium lepraemurium
KW - Skin Diseases, Infectious
AU - Love G L
AB - <p>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.</p>
BT - Southern medical journal
C1 - http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/3303360?dopt=Abstract
DA - 1987 Aug
DO - 10.1097/00007611-198708000-00033
IS - 8
J2 - South. Med. J.
LA - eng
N2 - <p>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.</p>
PY - 1987
SP - 1060
EP - 1
T2 - Southern medical journal
TI - Nontuberculous mycobacterial skin infection resembling lepromatous leprosy.
VL - 80
SN - 0038-4348
ER -