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Correspondence
October 2010

Madura Foot Caused by Actinomadura madurae in a Pregnant Woman

Author Affiliations

Author Affiliations: Department of Medicine, Divisions of Dermatology (Dr Yeh) and Infectious Diseases (Dr Dhanireddy), University of Washington, Seattle. Dr Yeh is now with the University of California, San Francisco.

Arch Dermatol. 2010;146(10):1189-1190. doi:10.1001/archdermatol.2010.296

A 22-year-old woman developed soft tender nodules on the right medial ankle and plantar foot at the beginning of pregnancy (Figure 1). She immigrated to Washington state from Mexico 18 months prior to the onset of symptoms. Analysis of biopsy specimens revealed small white-yellow grains extruded from the biopsy site. Mixed inflammation diffusely involved the dermis with deep dermal collections of filamentous basophilic rods (Figure 2). Magnetic resonance imaging demonstrated mycetoma and infectious myositis without evidence of osteomyelitis.

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