Deep cutaneous candidiasis of the lip in a patient with acute myelogenous leukemia

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• who: Jose L. Cortez MD MS from the CASE REPORT A, year-old female with acute myeloid leukemia was admitted for induction chemotherapy with cytarabine and daunorubicinDermatology was consulted for an indurated purpuric ulcerating plaque of the upper vermillion lip that had been tender and enlarging for , weeks (Fig, A). On examination, the patient was also noted to have a painful angulated ulcerated plaque with a violaceous rim on her hard palate (Fig, B). She had no history of orolabial herpes simplex virus infection. The differential diagnosis included infiltrative leukemic involvement of skin/mucosa, lymphoma, melanoma, neutrophilic . . .
  

   

  

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