PRIMARY CUTANEOUS ASPERGILLOSIS - OUR EXPERIENCE IN 10 YEARS

We describe nine patients with primary cutaneous aspergillosis who wer e diagnosed during the 10-year period between 1987 and 1996. All excep t one were adults. Seven of those nine cases had an immunocompromised state. Among the immunocompromised patients, six had burn wounds and o ne was a renal transplant recipient. Aspergillus flavus was isolated f rom seven patients and A. fumigatus from one, and in one other case th e species could not be determined. Three patients who had total burn s urface area of more than 70% died. The other patients responded well t o extensive surgical debridement with or without institution of oral i traconazole.