Giant molluscum contagiosum: an unusual presenting complaint of paediatric HIV disease

Sayan Chatterjee; Mukut Banerjee; Subhashish Bhattacharya

doi:10.1177/0049475514568133

Giant molluscum contagiosum: an unusual presenting complaint of paediatric HIV disease

Trop Doct. 2015 Apr;45(2):148-50. doi: 10.1177/0049475514568133. Epub 2015 Jan 18.

Authors

Sayan Chatterjee¹, Mukut Banerjee², Subhashish Bhattacharya³

Affiliations

¹ Resident, Department of Paediatrics, Medical College, Kolkata, India sayanchat_82@yahoo.co.in.
² Resident, Department of Paediatrics, Medical College, Kolkata, India.
³ Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics Medical College, Kolkata, India.

PMID: 25601890
DOI: 10.1177/0049475514568133

Abstract

We report a widely disseminated, disfiguring facial molluscum contagiosum (MC) as a presenting complaint in an 11-year-old girl secondary to human immune-deficiency virus infection. A biopsy specimen demonstrated lobulated epidermal growth consisting of keratinocytes with large intracytoplasmic eosinophilic inclusion bodies. The patient was treated with highly active anti-retroviral therapy (HAART). The extent of MC in our patient was remarkable and subsequently improved dramatically after starting HAART. Normally MC does not similarly respond in patients with AIDS.

Keywords: HAART; HIV; Molluscum contagiosum.

Publication types

Case Reports

MeSH terms

Antiretroviral Therapy, Highly Active
Child
Diagnosis, Differential
Face / pathology
Female
HIV Infections / complications
HIV Infections / diagnosis*
HIV Infections / drug therapy
Humans
Molluscum Contagiosum / complications
Molluscum Contagiosum / diagnosis*
Molluscum Contagiosum / drug therapy