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Red Nodule on the Finger of an Immunosuppressed Woman
Roshini Kandyil, MD;
Denise Maloney, BS;
Jeffrey Tarrand, MD;
Madeleine Duvic, MD
Baylor College of Medicine (Dr Kandyil), University of Texas, Houston,
Medical School (Ms Maloney), and M. D. Anderson Cancer Center (Drs Tarrand
and Duvic), Houston, Tex
Arch Dermatol. 2002;138:689-694.
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REPORT OF A CASE
A 59-year-old white woman presented with a 1-week history of a red nodule
on her right index finger. She had recently had a paper cut in the same area
and had handled thorny roses that had been soaking in slimy water. The lesion,
which was not tender, did not resolve spontaneously. She denied fever, chills,
weight loss, sweats, cough, arthritis, and other skin lesions. She had a 2-year
history of stage II ductal breast cancer that had been treated with a modified
radical mastectomy and had undergone an autologous bone marrow transplantation
7 months before presentation. She also had a history of disseminated Fusarium infection as well as Clostridium
difficile colitis in the past year. Current medications included tamoxifen,
ketorolac, erythropoietin, nadolol, nortriptyline, and ergotamine tartrate.
On physical examination, the patient was afebrile and in no acute distress.
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