Nandhini G, Rajkumar K, Kanth K Sudheer, Nataraj Priyadharsini, Ananthakrishnan Pavithra, Arunachalam M
Reader, Department of Oral Pathology, SRM Dental College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
Professor & Head, Department of Oral Pathology, SRM Dental College, Chennai, Tamil Nadu, India.
J Int Oral Health. 2015 Jan;7(1):63-6.
Molluscum contagiosum (MC) is an infection of the skin and mucous membrane caused by a DNA virus from the poxvirus family. It usually affects any part of the body and presents as pearly, flesh colored dome shaped nodule with a central umbilication. Clinical diagnosis can be supplemented with histopathology for the confirmed diagnosis of MC. This article presents a case of 12-year-old male child afflicted with MC along with a review of the literature on MC.
传染性软疣（MC）是由痘病毒科的一种DNA病毒引起的皮肤和黏膜感染。它通常会影响身体的任何部位，表现为珍珠色、肉色的圆顶形结节，中央有脐凹。临床诊断可辅以组织病理学检查以确诊MC。本文介绍了一例患MC的12岁男童病例，并对MC的相关文献进行了综述。
