Items tagged “infectiousdisease”
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Necrotizing soft tissue infection
Necrotizing soft tissue infections are a category of bacterial infection characterized by rapidly progressive tissue destruction involving the skin, subcutaneous fat, deep fascia, and/or muscle.
Terminology
Traditionally, such infections have been separated by the depth of involvement 1,2:
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Histoplasmoma
Histoplasmoma is the name for a specific kind of nodule secondary to granulomatous reaction to histoplasmosis infection. It is often described as having a pathognomonic target lesion appearance, describing a well-defined nodule with a central core of calcification 5.
Histoplasmomas can appear ...