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SAN DIEGO -- The dermatologist who first saw the patient listed angiolymphoid hyperplasia with eosinophilia, B-cell lymphoma, pseudolymphoma, and Sweet's syndrome as possibilities.
From an infectious disease perspective, leishmaniasis, sporotrichosis, blastomycosis, chromomycosis, lobomycosis, cutaneous tuberculosis, atypical mycobacterial infection, syphilis, yaws, leprosy, sarcoidosis, lupus vulgaris, and neoplasms were on the list of possible differential diagnoses.
A biopsy of the lesion was performed and sent for histopathology and culture.
The initial Giemsa stains were suggestive of leishmaniasis, and isoenzyme analysis of the culture performed at the Centers for Disease Control...
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