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KMID : 0363219920300060913
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Korean Journal of Dermatology
1992 Volume.30 No. 6 p.913 ~ p.916
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Spontaneously Healed Congenital Candidiasis Limited to the Nail plates
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Abstract
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We report a case of congenital candidiasis confined to the nail plates in a 57-day-old girl whose infected nails exhibited the rough, yellow-white, thickened, opaque distal ends and pink-colored, normal healthy plates at their proximal bases.
Numerous pseudohyphae and spores were demonstrated by KOH microscopic examination. Candida albicans was identified by culture on Sabouraud's glucose agar and API 20C Aux system.
Histopathologic findings of nail crippings also showed multiple hyphae beneath the hyperkeratotic nail plate on PAS stain.
Shedding of the infected distal distal portion of the ungual plates was caused by growing out of the healthy nails, resulting in spontaneous healing of the disease within 2 months.
(Kor J Dermatol 1992; 30 (6): 913-916)
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