ReviewPLoS neglected tropical diseases2016
Hand Mycetoma: The Mycetoma Research Centre Experience and Literature Review.
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- Eumycetoma causative agents: A systematic review to inform the World Health Organization priority list of fungal pathogens.Medical mycology · 2024Pooled it
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- A rare presentation of actinomycotic mycetoma of the hand: a case report.BMC infectious diseases · 2026Article
- Environmental and structural risk factors for mycetoma in the White Nile State, Sudan: an ethnographic study.International journal for equity in health · 2026Article
- Medical and health students' insights into mycetoma: A survey-based study on knowledge and clinical practices.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2025Article
- Right Thumb Mycetoma: A Case Report and Review of the Literature.Plastic and reconstructive surgery. Global open · 2025Article
- The use of artificial intelligence to improve mycetoma management.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- The nutritional status of mycetoma affected patients seen at the Mycetoma Research Center, Sudan.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2024Article
- Deep Fungal Infections of the Upper Extremity - A Review.Orthopedic reviews · 2024Article
- Mycetoma and the environment.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2023Review
- Metagenomic detection of eumycetoma causative agents from households of patients residing in two Sudanese endemic villages in White Nile State.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Detection of multiple mycetoma pathogens using fungal metabarcoding analysis of soil DNA in an endemic area of Sudan.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2022Article
- Pulmonary fungal ball due toThe Journal of international medical research · 2021Article
- Diagnostic implications of mycetoma derived from Madurella pseudomycetomatis isolates from Mexico.Journal of the European Academy of Dermatology and Venereology : JEADV · 2020Article
- Twenty-year cervicothoracicJAAD case reports · 2019Article
- Interleukin-17 and matrix metalloprotease-9 expression in the mycetoma granuloma.PLoS neglected tropical diseases · 2019Article
- A Primary Cutaneous Nocardiosis of the Hand.Open access Macedonian journal of medical sciences · 2017Article
- Mycetoma: A Common Yet Unrecognized Health Burden in Central India.Indian dermatology online journalArticle
- Mycetomas: an epidemiological, etiological, clinical, laboratory and therapeutic review.Anais brasileiros de dermatologiaReview
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Abstract
Mycetoma is a devastating, neglected tropical disease characterised by extensive tissue involvement resulting in destruction, deformities and disabilities in the affected patients. The hand is commonly affected by mycetoma thus compromises its functionality and hinder the patient's daily activities of living. In this communication, we report on 533 patients with hand mycetoma managed over a period of 24 years at the Mycetoma Research Centre, University of Khartoum, Khartoum, Sudan. Eumycetoma was the commonest type of mycetoma (83.3%) encountered. Males were predominately affected (69.2%) with a sex ratio of 2.2:1. The majority of the patients (84%) were young adult below the age of 40 years old at presentation. The generality of patients (86.4%) were from the Sudan mycetoma belt. Children and adolescents (28.1%), farmers (18.2%) and workers (17.4%) were more frequently affected. The majority of patients (67.4%) had disease duration of less than 5 years at presentation. The study, did not document significant history of local trauma, familial tendency, concomitant medical diseases or other predisposing cause for mycetoma in this population. Pain (23.1%) was not a disease feature in this series and 52% of patients had past surgery for mycetoma and recurrence. The right hand was affected most (60.4%), and 64% of them had small lesion at presentation. Conventional x-ray was only helpful in patients with advanced disease and the MRI accurately determined the disease extension. Cytological smears, surgical biopsies histopathological examination and grains culture were the principal diagnostic tools for causative organisms' identification. In the present series it was difficult to determine the treatment outcome due to high patients follow up dropout.
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