Unusual manifestation of genital cutaneous leishmaniasis in an immunocompetent patient from São Paulo, Brazil: A case report
- Resource Type
- Authors
- Lucia Maria Almeida Braz; Hiro Goto; José Angelo Lauletta Lindoso; E. H. Yamashiro-Kanashiro; Luiza Campos Reis; Beatriz Julieta Celeste; Luiza Keiko Oyafuso; Eduardo Milton Ramos-Sanchez
- Source
- Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical
Revista da Sociedade Brasileira de Medicina Tropical, Vol 54 (2021)
- Subject
- 0301 basic medicine
Microbiology (medical)
medicine.medical_specialty
Meglumine antimoniate
RC955-962
030231 tropical medicine
030106 microbiology
Case Report
Lesion
03 medical and health sciences
0302 clinical medicine
Cutaneous leishmaniasis
Arctic medicine. Tropical medicine
Diagnosis
Medicine
Sex organ
Meglumine
Genital lesion
business.industry
Glans penis
Leishmaniasis
medicine.disease
Dermatology
Infectious Diseases
medicine.anatomical_structure
Parasitology
medicine.symptom
Differential diagnosis
business
medicine.drug
- Language
- ISSN
- 1678-9849
0037-8682
A 31-year-old male patient developed an ulcer on the glans penis that evolved for three months without healing. We diagnosed it as leishmaniasis using polymerase chain reaction. No immunosuppression or associated diseases were observed. The patient was treated with meglumine antimoniate that cured the lesion in a month post-treatment. Here, we report this case of cutaneous leishmaniasis lesion at the unusual location of glans penis in an immunocompetent individual. The lesion likely developed due to the bite of a vector, highlighting the need for considering cutaneous leishmaniasis among differential diagnosis of sexually transmitted diseases in areas endemic for leishmaniasis.