Ultrasonography is simple, non-invasive, quick, reproducible and acceptable to patients. Mycetoma has characteristic ultrasonographic features. Furthermore, ultrasonography delineates the extent of mycetoma more accurately than clinical examination alone.
Ultrasonography is simple, non-invasive, quick, reproducible and acceptable to patients. Mycetoma has characteristic ultrasonographic features. Furthermore, ultrasonography delineates the extent of mycetoma more accurately than clinical examination alone.
This paper reports 2 hitherto undescribed complications of mycetoma, urinary extravasation and expectoration of mycetoma grains due to cutaneo-urethral and cutaneo-pleuro-bronchial fistulae, respectively. The first patient had an infection with Actinomadura madurae which started in the foot and had spread progressively to involve the whole limb, anterior abdominal wall, perineum and urethra. The second patient had Madurella mycetomatis infection of the hand and, in spite of extensive treatment, the infection had spread to the axilla, chest wall, lung and bronchial tree. Both patients died of the sequelae of these complications. The pathogenesis of these unusual complications is discussed.
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