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Case Reports
. 1988 Apr;15(2):120-3.
doi: 10.1111/j.1600-0560.1988.tb00531.x.

Lycopodium granuloma

M A Nadjem  1 , J H Graham, F B Johnson
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Case Reports

Lycopodium granuloma

M A Nadjem et al. J Cutan Pathol. 1988 Apr.

Abstract

The spores of Lycopodium (L) clavatum were used as a component of a dusting powder in many hospitals during the 1920's and 1930's. When L spores enter surgical wounds a lesion clinically resembling tuberculosis or neoplasia may develop months or even years later. We recently encountered a case of L granuloma occurring in a patient 50 years after an appendectomy. Three additional cases found in the files of the AFIP are also reported.

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