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Necrotizing Ulcer After BCG Vaccination in a Girl With Leukocyte-adhesion Deficiency Type 1.
Journal of pediatric hematology/oncology - 1 Jan 2018
Kurosawa Hidemitsu, Mizukami Tomoyuki, Nunoi Hiroyuki, Kato Masaya, Sato Yuya, Okuya Mayuko, Fukushima Keitaro, Katsuyama Yoshihiko, Arisaka Osamu
Abstract excerpt
Leukocyte-adhesion deficiency-1 is a recessively inherited disorder associated with recurrent bacterial infections, severe periodontitis, peripheral leukocytosis, and impaired wound healing. We diagnosed moderate-type leukocyte-adhesion deficiency-1 in a 7-year-old girl who developed a necrotizing ulcer after Bacillus Calmette-Guerin vaccination. The patient showed moderate expression of CD18 in neutrophils with...
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