Smith K J, Skelton H G, Tuur S, Larson P L, Angritt P
United States Army Medical Research Institute for Chemical Defense, Rochester, New York, USA.
Am J Dermatopathol. 1996 Dec;18(6):597-600. doi: 10.1097/00000372-199612000-00008.
Bacillary angiomatosis (BA) is a pathological process characterized by prominent vascular proliferation secondary to organisms of the genus Rochalimaea. BA has been most commonly associated with HIV-1+ patients, but has also been reported rarely in other immune-suppressed patients and in a small group of patients with no demonstrated immune suppression. Even in immune-suppressed children, BA is extremely rare. We report a 5-year-old girl with no apparent immune suppression and no risk factors for HIV-1+ disease, who presented with a skin lesion that histopathologically was diagnostic of BA.
