TY - JOUR
T1 - Chronic Mucocutaneous Candidiasis of the Adult
T2 - A Report of a Patient With an Associated Thymoma
AU - Maize, John C.
AU - Lynch, Peter J.
PY - 1972/1
Y1 - 1972/1
N2 - A 71-year-old woman with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis was found to have a benign thymoma and impaired cellular immune response. She was anergic to common skin-test antigens and she could not be sensitized to fluorodinitrobenzene, but her lymphocytes did respond in a normal manner to phytohemagglutinin and Candida albicans antigen stimulation. It is believed that this represents an acquired, adult counterpart of the congenital childhood chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis syndrome. Treatment of her thymoma has not, thus far, improved her candidiasis.
AB - A 71-year-old woman with chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis was found to have a benign thymoma and impaired cellular immune response. She was anergic to common skin-test antigens and she could not be sensitized to fluorodinitrobenzene, but her lymphocytes did respond in a normal manner to phytohemagglutinin and Candida albicans antigen stimulation. It is believed that this represents an acquired, adult counterpart of the congenital childhood chronic mucocutaneous candidiasis syndrome. Treatment of her thymoma has not, thus far, improved her candidiasis.
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U2 - 10.1001/archderm.1972.01620040064016
DO - 10.1001/archderm.1972.01620040064016
M3 - Article
C2 - 5009626
AN - SCOPUS:0015256146
SN - 0003-987X
VL - 105
SP - 96
EP - 98
JO - Archives of Dermatology
JF - Archives of Dermatology
IS - 1
ER -