Document Type : Case Reports
Authors
Dept. of Pathology, Burdwan Medical College, Burdwan, India
10.7508/ijp.2015.02.011
Abstract
Cutaneous leishmaniasis(CL) is referred to a group of diseases because of the varied clinical presentation, ranging from small cutaneous nodule to wide spread mucosal destruction. The nose is rarely involved by CL in even in endemic region. In this report we describe a rare rhinophymatous presentation of CL from a non-endemic region which was diagnosed by fine needle sampling and treated with Miltefosine.
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