Mucocutaneous candidosis in a patient with Sjogren's syndrome

Oral candidiasis is common among patients with Sjogren's syndrome. For the first time we report on a 60-year-old Female patient, who developed a nonfa milial chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis of later life. She presented with the following symptoms: oral candidiasis and glossitis, angulus infectiosus , vulvovaginitis, lichen planus-like onychodystrophy of the fingernails and chronic nail bed inflammation of the nails of the big toes. The knowledge of chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis is of prognostic and therapeutic relev ance, since topical treatment often fails.