A 68-year-old woman with a history of brittle diabetes mellitus and end-stage renal disease (ESRD) that had required hemodialysis for several years presented to the emergency department with severely...
A 28-year-old white woman presented with recurrent boils in the axillary and inguinal areas. The lesions had been fluctuating in severity for the preceding 5 or 6 years and often had flared premenstrually....
First described in 1846 by Eichstedt, tinea versicolor is caused by saprophytic, lipid-dependent yeasts in the genus Malassezia that are part of normal skin flora.