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A woman with a painful eruption following liver transplantation |
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| Authors: | D Wooten JD Feramisco TW Mully LP Fox |
| Institution: | 1. Division of Infectious Diseases, University of California – Los Angeles, Harbor Medical Center, , Torrance, California, USA;2. Dermlink – Dermatology, , San Francisco, California, USA;3. Department of Dermatology, University of California – San Francisco, , San Francisco, California, USA;4. Department of Dermatopathology, University of California – San Francisco, , San Francisco, California, USA |
| Abstract: | A 29‐year‐old woman with hepatitis C presented 2 years after an orthotopic liver transplant with several weeks of fevers, abdominal pain, nausea, and a painful ulcerated nodular eruption on her abdomen and lower extremities. The patient was evaluated, and her case is presented and the differential discussed. |
| Keywords: | disseminated fungal infection cutaneous cryptococcal infection Cryptococcus neoformans liver transplant solid organ transplant cryptococcosis |