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Disseminated aspergillosis presenting as a skin abscess

Cleveland Clinic Journal of Medicine. 1990 January;57(1):92-94 | 10.3949/ccjm.57.1.92
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ABSTRACT

An immunocompromised patient presented with chronic low back pain as the initial symptom and a subcutaneous abscess as the initial sign of disseminated aspergillosis. With the rising incidence of immunocompromised patients, cutaneous manifestation of aspergillosis may become more common.