A “lipo-tourist” with chronic cutaneous lesions after surgery in Ecuador: A diagnostic challenge

A 32-year-old woman had an abdominoplasty and mammoplasty surgery in Ecuador. Following surgery, pruritic and slightly suppurative nodular lesions appeared over the abdominal and mammary scars. During the following months, satellite papules and nodules arose on distant sites. All bacterial cultures performed grew methicillin-sensitive Staphylococcus aureus and she received oral trimethoprim-sulfamethoxazole, levofloxacin and topical fusidic acid without improvement. She moved to Spain and was evaluated at our hospital two years after the surgery.
Source: Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease - Category: Infectious Diseases Authors: Source Type: research