DISSEMINATED MYCOBACTERIUM-AVIUM-INTRACELLULARE INFECTION APPEARING AS A PANNICULITIS

  • 1 January 1982
    • journal article
    • research article
    • Vol. 106  (3) , 112-114
Abstract
A 34 yr old woman had widespread panniculitus due to a disseminated infection with M. avium-M. intracellulare. The patient had previously received treatment with high dosages of corticosteroids. Suppurative lesions teeming with acid-fast bacilli and without formation of granulomas were found in many organs, including the skin, mediastinum, spleen, liver and gastrointestinal tract. The appearance of disseminated M. avium-M. intracellulare infection resembling panniculitis and the involvement of mediastinum have apparently not previously been reported.

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