| cutaneous protothecosis. a clinicopathologic study. | in what we believe to be the first case of cutaneous protothecosis identified in taiwan, a 5-year-old chinese girl presented with a pruritic erythematous plaque on her right upper eyelid. a clinical diagnosis of eczematous dermatitis was made initially, and sporotrichosis was diagnosed subsequently. later, histopathologic and cultural studies of the lesion finally led to the diagnosis of protothecosis. the recognition of the characteristic sporangia containing symmetrically arranged endospores i ... | 1987 | 3632287 |