Publications by authors named "Christiane Matsuo"
Epithelioid sarcoma, first described by Enzinger in 1970, is a rare soft-tissue sarcoma typically presenting as a subcutaneous or deep dermal mass in distal portions of the extremities of adolescents and young adults. In 1997, Guillou et al. described a different type of epithelioid sarcoma, called proximal-type epithelioid sarcoma, which is found mostly in the pelvic and perineal regions and genital tracts of young to middle-aged adults.
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- A 21-year-old female with linear IgA and IgG disease initially showed good improvement with dapsone therapy.
- Treatment was stopped due to severe anemia caused by malaria, resulting in a decline in her condition.
- The combination of dapsone and mycophenolate mofetil eventually proved effective after other treatments like prednisone and methylprednisolone did not work.
It is presented a case of borderline lepromatous leprosy with 4 years of evolution and cutaneous lesions of difficult diagnosis in the National Health System. The histopathological evaluation, which was essential for the diagnosis, showed disorganized granulomatous structures and multiple alcohol -acid resistant bacilli. Cases like the one described here are responsible for the contamination of cohabitants and the appearance of new cases of leprosy.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFBackground: Although awareness of the relevance of leprosy and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) coinfection is increasing worldwide, several aspects of this co-occurrence are not fully understood.
Methods: We describe clinical, pathological, immunological, and therapeutic long-term follow-up of a cohort of 25 individuals with leprosy and HIV infection from Manaus, Amazonas.
Results: Careful description of our cohort indicates a higher prevalence of leprosy in an HIV-positive population than that in the general population.