Epidemiological observations and management challenges in extrapedal mycetoma: A three-decade review of 420 cases.

ABSTRACT: Mycetoma is a serious, destructive, disfiguring chronic granulomatous inflammatory disease affecting the subcutaneous tissues that spread to involve the skin, deep tissues and bone. The disease predominately affects the limbs, and extrapedal mycetoma is rarely reported. The reported extrapedal ones are characterised by high morbidity and mortality. This communication reports on 420 patients with extrapedal mycetoma seen and managed at the Mycetoma Research Centre (MRC), University of Khartoum, between January 1991 and December 2021. In this descriptive, cross-sectional, hospital-based study, the electronic records of all mycetoma-confirmed patients seen during the study period were carefully and meticulously reviewed. The confirmed patients with extrapedal mycetoma were included in this st

SUBMITTER: Alhaj AAM 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC11111073 | biostudies-literature | 2024 May

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature