• Skin lesion of the initial (primary) infection
  • Erythema multiforme (target lesions)
  • Erythema nodosum
  • Papular rash
• Skin lesion of widespread (disseminated) disease: papule, pustule, nodule, or plaque
  • May form abscesses
  • May ulcerate
  • Most often on the face

The diagnosis depends on the stage of infection (primary or disseminated). If disseminated disease is suspected, the doctor may do a skin biopsy to look for the fungus in a skin lesion.

Images

Erythema nodosum on the foot

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Review Date: 09/15/2010
Reviewed By: David C. Dugdale, III, MD, Professor of Medicine, Division of General Medicine, Department of Medicine, University of Washington School of Medicine; Jatin M. Vyas, MD, PhD, Assistant Professor in Medicine, Harvard Medical School; Assistant in Medicine, Division of Infectious Disease, Department of Medicine, Massachusetts General Hospital. Also reviewed by David Zieve, MD, MHA, Medical Director, A.D.A.M., Inc.

A.D.A.M., Inc. is accredited by URAC, also known as the American Accreditation HealthCare Commission (www.urac.org)