A rare case report of extensive cutaneous Leishmaniasis lesions on ear from Dehloran city, West of Iran and the treatment process

Bahmani, Mahmoud and Shamsi, Morteza and Naserifar, Razi and Karami, Hemat and Jalilian, Ali and Rasouli, Shahriyar and Adineh, Seyed Hossein and Sahraei, Elham and Rafieian-Kopaei, Mahmoud and Shahsavari, Somayeh (2017) A rare case report of extensive cutaneous Leishmaniasis lesions on ear from Dehloran city, West of Iran and the treatment process. INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF ADVANCED BIOTECHNOLOGY AND RESEARCH, 8. pp. 1747-1749.

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Abstract

Abstract Background and objectives: Leishmaniasis is a parasitic zoonotic disease and the sixth most important tropical parasitic disease, according to the WHO reports. This disease causes a lesion with remaining scar. Case presentation: This case report presents a patient with cutaneous Leishmaniasis. A 35-year- old male patient weighing 83 kg, residing in Dehloran (Ilam, West of Iran) referred to the leishmaniasis center of Dehloran in June 2015 with a 1 x 10 cm wide wound on the right ear. Specimens were prepared from the lesion, stained with Giemsa, and studied under microscope, which revealed Leishmaniasis parasite. Keywords Author Keywords:Leishmaniasis; ear; extensive lesion; rare reports; Iran

Item Type: Article
Subjects: R Medicine > RF Otorhinolaryngology
Divisions: Faculty of Medicine, Health and Life Sciences > School of Medicine
Depositing User: samira sepahvandy
Date Deposited: 02 Dec 2017 19:48
Last Modified: 02 Dec 2017 19:48
URI: http://eprints.lums.ac.ir/id/eprint/952

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