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Skin - Nonmelanocytic tumors
Vascular tumors
Verruga peruana / Carrión disease
Reviewer: Christopher Hale, M.D. (see Reviewers page)
Revised: 19 August 2012, last major update August 2012
Copyright: (c) 2001-2012, PathologyOutlines.com, Inc.
General
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● Verruga peruana and Oroya fever are now called Carrión disease (Wikipedia)
● Due to infection by Bartonella bacilliformis, a gram negative, flagellated, motile bacteria (J Infect Dis 1992;165:1138, Future Microbiol 2009;4:743)
● Endemic in Peru
Clinical images
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Angiomatous lesions caused by Bartonella bacilliformis
Gross description
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● Numerous dark red papules
Micro description
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● Vascular proliferative process with Rocha-Lima inclusions (large cytoplasmic inclusions of endothelial cells)
Micro images
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Peripheral blood smear
Positive stains
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● Warthin-Starry stain shows clusters of bacteria in lesions
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