Annales de Dermatologie et de Venereologie 128(10(1)): 1009-1013
2001
ISSN/ISBN: 0151-9638
Background. Primary cutaneous cryptococcosis is an uncommon clinical entity characterized by direct skin inoculation without systemic involvement. We report four cases of this affection in HIV-negative patients seen between 1990 and 1999 in Nantes Dermatological Clinic. Case reports. Patients mean age was seventy. Three patients had recent exposure to soil or birds, and two remembered a trauma before the lesion appeared. In three cases the lesion was on the hand.