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* <spoiler text="The patient had simple cutaneous leishmaniasis. What other clinical forms of leishmaniasis exist?">Patients can also get mucocutaneous leishmaniasis or visceral leishmaniasis depending on the species of leishmania organism causing the infection.</spoiler>
* <spoiler text="If the biopsy had shown only a granulomatous inflammatory response but no organisms, what other infectious diseases would be in the differential diagnosis?">Blastomyces, Mycobacterium ulcerans, Sporothrix schenckii.</spoiler>
== Additional Resources ==
=== Reference ===
* [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/220298-overview eMedicine Medical Library: Leishmaniasis]
* [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/783750-overview eMedicine Medical Library: Leishmaniasis in Emergency Medicine]
* [http://emedicine.medscape.com/article/1108860-overview eMedicine Medical Library: Dermatologic Manifestations of Leishmaniasis]
* [http://www.merckmanuals.com/professional/infectious_diseases/extraintestinal_protozoa/leishmaniasis.html Merck Manual: Leishmaniasis]
=== Journal Articles ===
* Choi CM, Lerner EA. [http://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/11924824 Leishmaniasis as an emerging infection]. ''J Investig Dermatol Symp Proc'' 2001 Dec;6(3):175-82.
=== Images ===
* [{{SERVER}}/library/index.php?/tags/2160-leishmaniasis PEIR Digital Library: Leishmaniasis Images]
* [http://library.med.utah.edu/WebPath/INFLHTML/INFLIDX.html WebPath: Inflammation]
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