TY  - JOUR
TI  - Cutaneous Leishmaniasis in Pediatric Patients in a Single Tertiary Hospital in Ankara
AB  - Objective: Leishmaniasis is an infectious disease that is caused by a protozoan parasite of the Leishmania genus and that occurs worldwide.Leishmaniasis is endemic in southeastern Turkey and the neighboring Middle Eastern countries. The purpose of this study was to describethe clinical characteristics of patients admitted to our hospital with a diagnosis of cutaneous leishmaniasis (CL).Methods: A total of 16 CL patients [11 (69%) boys and five (31%) girls] were admitted between January 2014 and December 2015. The dataof the patients were retrospectively recorded from their medical records.Results: Their mean age was 74.3±32.3 months (range: 1–10.5 years). Double lesions were most commonly seen in eight (50%) patients. Theface and neck was the most commonly involved site (87.5% of the patients). Skin smears for a parasitological examination were positive innine (56%) patients. Two patients (12.5%) with limb lesions were treated with intralesional meglumine antimoniate. Fourteen patients weretreated with systemic agents.Conclusion: We felt that the increase in human movement that include travels and forced migration due to the war might make it possiblefor CL to appear in non-endemic provinces such as Ankara. In particular, in patients with painless cutaneous lesion(s) who came from endemicareas such as Syria, CL should be kept in mind by the clinicians that residing in even non-endemic areas .
AU  - GÖKÇE GAYRETLİ AYDIN, Zeynep
AU  - NUR ÖZ, Fatma
AU  - Tanır, Gönül
AU  - AYDIN-TEKE, Türkan
AU  - METİN AKCAN, ÖZGE
AU  - kaman, ayse
AU  - MUNGAN, Mesut
PY  - 2017
JO  - Türkiye Parazitoloji Dergisi
VL  - 41
IS  - 4
SN  - 1300-6320
SP  - 214
EP  - 218
DB  - TRDizin
UR  - http://search/yayin/detay/294047
ER  -