Medical education
Lessons from practice
Volume 220 - Issue 10
Paracoccidioidomycosis: an Australian case
Authors: Timothy C Badrick, Ella M Meumann, Kathryn Shirley, Peter Simos, Mertya L May, Gary Quagliotto, Evan C Bursle, Nici Leonard, Rodney J McDougall and Jennifer M Robson
Med J Aust 2024; 220 (10): 505-506. || doi: 10.5694/mja2.52300
Published online: 3 June 2024
Published online: 3 June 2024
A 34-year-old man, born in Brasília, Brazil, who had been living in Australia for three years with no return travel, presented to his dentist with an eight-week history of a painful, progressively enlarging maxillary, gingival ulcerative lesion
Competing interests
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Acknowledgements
We extend our thanks to the patient for allowing publication of his medical history and images.
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