Spontaneonsly healed congenital candidiasis limited to the nail plates.
- Author:
Young Hun LEE
;
Jong Hee NA
;
Do Won KIM
;
Jae Bok JUN
- Publication Type:Original Article
- Keywords:
Congenital candidiasis;
Nail plate infection;
Spontanecus healing
- MeSH:
Agar;
Candida albicans;
Candidiasis*;
Female;
Glucose;
Humans;
Hyphae;
Spores
- From:Korean Journal of Dermatology
1992;30(6):913-916
- CountryRepublic of Korea
- Language:Korean
-
Abstract:
We report a case of congenital candidiasis confined to the rail 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 Sabourauds glucose agar and API 20C Aux system. Histopathologic findings of nail crippings also showed mutiple hyphae beneath the hyperkeratot,ic nail plate on PAS stain. Shedding of the infected distal portion of the ungual plates ws caused by growing out of the healthy nails, resulting in spontaneous healing of the disease rithin 2 months.
