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CASE REPORT
Indian erythrodermic postkala-azar dermal leishmaniasis
  1. Gomathy Sethuraman1,
  2. Neetu Bhari1,
  3. Poonam Salotra2,
  4. Venkatesh Ramesh3
  1. 1Department of Dermatology and Venereology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi, India
  2. 2National Institute of Pathology, New Delhi, India
  3. 3Safdarjung Hospital, New Delhi, India
  1. Correspondence to Professor Gomathy Sethuraman, aiimsgsr{at}gmail.com

Summary

Postkala-azar dermal leishmaniasis (PKDL) is a complication of kala-azar or visceral leishmaniasis and is caused by Leishmania donovani. We describe an Indian male patient with the rarer erythrodermic form of PKDL and multiple unusual skin lesions viz. verrucous, annular and mucosal ulceration.

https://doi.org/10.1136/bcr-2016-217926

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    Footnotes

    • Contributors GS, NB, PS and VR drafted the manuscript. All four authors finally approved the manuscript. PS did PCR for the diagnosis of species and VR provided miltefosine for the treatment.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.