Aspergillosis: a case of postoperative skin infection
Author:
Frank L, Alton OM
Date: 11 March 2011
Abstract:
No abstract. First paragraphs: Since our student days we have been familiar with the fact that molds may at times be pathogenic in their action. Attention had been called to this pathogenicity even before Virchow’s work in 1856 describing the infectious process and identifying the organism. Baumgarten in his Mykologie, published in 1890, describes the lesions resulting from experimental injections of Aspergillus niger and discusses very fully the pathologic changes and the microscopic observations.!
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!Myers and Dunn1 reported a case of aspergillosis in which the infection was located on the dorsal aspect of the hand of a farmer. The lesion was in the nature of a granuloma.!
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!Most often this infection is seen in the auditory canal and in the lungs. In the lung it may run a very chronic course and defy accurate diagnosis for a long time. In the auditory canal it is a question whether the mold acts as a true pathogenic organism or is present as an epiphyte. In the lung, however, it is truly parasitic or pathogenic in character.!
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!Recently our attention, has been called to a postoperative dermatosis due to Aspergillus and, having seen two previous cases, we have thought the matter of sufficient interest to record; also, we have noted no similar postoperative skin infections reported in the literature.
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