- Serratia marcescens Skin Abscess.
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Chan Kwon Jung, Young Shin Kim, Kyo Young Lee, Kyungja Han, Chang Suk Kang, Sang In Shim, Jun Young Lee, Baik Kee Cho
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Korean J Pathol. 1998;32(11):1032-1034.
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- Serratia marcescens is the most important member of the genus Serratia and causes opportunistic infections, particularly pneumonia and septicemia in patients with malignancy, renal failure (acute and chronic), and diabetes mellitus. The most common portals of entry are known to be, in descending order, lung, genitourinary tract, intravenous line, gastrointestinal tract, and skin. S. marcescens rarely causes skin infection because it does not normally colonize human skin. Only six cases of S. marcescens cellulitis were reported. Five of them were immunocompromised patients. We have experienced a case of skin abscess caused by S.
marcescens, which was found in a 59-year-old woman. She was undergoing prior antibiotic treatment after insulinoma surgery. S. marcescens was isolated from the skin abscess as a sole organism. She was treated with appropriate antibiotics that exhibited sensitivities for the organism and cured without any complication. The authors report a case of S. marcescens infection on the skin of a 59-year-old woman and review the literature concerning this organism as a causative agent.
- Spindle and Epithelioid Cell Nevus: Report of four cases.
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Hye Ju An, Kyo Young Lee, Sang In Shim, Sun Moo Kim, Jun Young Lee, Baik Kee Cho
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Korean J Pathol. 1987;21(4):317-322.
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- The spindle and epithelioid cell nevus, is known also as Spitz's nevus or benign juvenile melanoma. The histologic picture of the lesion often closely resembles that of a malignant melanoma, but spindle and epithelioid cell nevus hehaves benignly. Criteria for accurate histological diagnosis of this nevus now exist. However, a difficult lesion occasionally brings one to the worrisome situation even now. We experienced four cases (three children and one adult) of spindle and epithelioid cell neveus with nodular or macular skin lesions. In children (7/F, 9/F, 4/M), all of the lesion show a solitary pinkish red or light brown nodular firm masses, 0.7 cm to 1.0 cm in greatest dimension, which are located at the left posterior thigh, posterior neck and right anterior neck region, respectively. In adult (36/F), the lesion shows a light brown, erythematous macule, 0.8 cm in greatest diameter, in the skin of the back.
Microscopically, both spindle and epithelioid cells are found in all the four cases, but epithelioid cells predominate in children and spindle cells predominate in adult.
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