PRIMARY HISTOPLASMOSIS OF ORAL CAVITY
Keywords:
Buccal Mucosa, Histoplasmosis, Non-healing ulcerAbstract
Primary cutaneous or mucosal histoplasmosis is a very rare disease and it is is benign and self-limited in duration.Infection may follow inoculation of spores through skin and mucous membranes as in laboratory infection and presents as a chancriform syndrome, with a nodule or ulcer at the site of inoculation and associated lymphangitis and lymphadenitis. Its spores are infectious to humans.
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