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| Year : 2000 | Volume
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Spontaneous penile skin gangrene in AIDS
Mallikarjuna N Reddy, A Thyagi, D Sharma, VSNL, Eashwar K Goud
Department of Genito-Urinary Surgery, Osmania General Hospital, Hyderabad, India
Correspondence Address:
Mallikarjuna N Reddy
Department of Genito-Urinary Surgery, Osmania General Hospital, Hyderabad, Andhra Pradesh
India
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AIDS is a systematic infection of retrovirus causing immunodeficiency. Many varied manifestations of the disease have been reported. Systemic vasculitis has been reported in as one of the manifestations of the syndrome. This has resulted in areas of skin necrosis in varied parts of 'the body. We report a case of penile skin necrosis which occurred spontaneously in a 25-year-old male patient with no evidence of trauma or infection. |
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