These tools will no longer be maintained as of December 31, 2024. Archived website can be found here. PubMed4Hh GitHub repository can be found here. Contact NLM Customer Service if you have questions.


Pubmed for Handhelds

PUBMED FOR HANDHELDS

Search MEDLINE/PubMed

  • Title: Isolated foot ulcer complicating acute leukemia: an unusual manifestation of herpes simplex virus infection simulating pyoderma gangrenosum.
    Author: Lau H, Lee AC, Tang SK.
    Journal: Pediatr Hematol Oncol; 2003 Sep; 20(6):477-80. PubMed ID: 14631623.
    Abstract:
    An isolated foot ulcer developed in a child with newly diagnosed acute mixed lineage leukemia during induction chemotherapy. Despite its clinical resemblance to pyoderma gangrenosum, herpes simplex virus infection was eventually diagnosed on histopathology. Treatment with oral acyclovir was ineffective, but the ulcer healed with intravenous acyclovir followed by oral valaciclovir. Viral infection remains an unusual but important cause of isolated extragenital cutaneous ulceration in the immunocompromised child.
    [Abstract] [Full Text] [Related] [New Search]