A Case of Cutaneoua Candidiasis Similar to Impetigo

Keimyung Medical Journal 1985;4(1):120-123.

농가진과 유사한 피부 칸디다증 1례

홍진표; 김대연; 이규석; 송준영

Abstract

Candidiasis is a subacute to chronic disease that primarily involved cutaneous region or mucocutaneous menbrane. k is usually developed in patient who was treated with a long term antibiotics or steroid or in the immunodepressed persons. The most chracteristic manifastation of the cutaneous candidiasis is well definded, weep, eroded lesions with scalloped broder, having an intensely red base. We report an atypical cutaneous candidiasis clinically similar to impetigo in 50-year-old female that shows cutaneous erosion and brownish red, thick, scaly, lesions who has suffered from chronic renal failure.