Soft Tissue Tumor Leg - A Rare Presentation of Cutaneous Rhinosporidiosis

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B Sai Dhandapani R King Gandhi R. Chithra

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R. Chithra
Department of General Surgery, Southern Railway Head Quarters Hospital, Ayanavarum, Chennai, India

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Rhinosporidiosis presents commonly as polypoidal growth in nose, but presentation in other sites including skin, genitourinary tract is documented. Cutaneous presentation is rare, which may present as pedunculated swelling or cutaneous ulceration, but presenting as soft tissue tumor is extremely rare. The multifaceted presentation of the disease causes diagnostic dilemma to an unsuspecting physician. Clinical and radiological findings may mislead, but usually typical history helps, and typical histology clinches the diagnosis. We are presenting a case of disseminated cutaneous rhinosporidiosis presented as soft tissue mass lesion in the leg causing diagnostic difficulty due to the rare presentation.

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Case Report

Publication history

Received: Mon 20, Apr 2020
Accepted: Thu 30, Apr 2020
Published: Wed 06, May 2020

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© 2023 R. Chithra. This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited. Hosting by Science Repository.
DOI: 10.31487/j.JSCR.2020.02.08