Table 3.

Clinical presentation of dematiaceous molds

Condition	Clinical presentation	Tissues involved	General agents that can cause the entity	Molds most frequently associated with clinical presentation	Other molds associated
Eumycetoma	Painless mass in extremities with multiple sinuses that drain pus and grains	Skin, soft tissues, fascia, bone	Bacteria, hyaline and pigmented molds	Madurella spp.	Scedosporium, Acremonium, Exophiala, Aspergillus, and others
Chromoblastomycosis	Tumor-like lesions of skin (nodules, verruca, scar, plaques)	Skin, underlying soft tissues	Pigmented molds	Fonsecaea pedrosoi, Cladophialophora carrionii	Phialophora verrucosa, Rhinocladiella spp., Exophiala spp., and others
Phaeohyphomycosis	Immunocompetent individuals present with single lesion (cyst, plaque) in the area of inoculation; in immunosuppressed patients the inoculation site may be a nodule, eschar, ulcer, or other and may disseminate to other organs	Skin, soft tissue, sinuses, lungs, brain	Pigmented molds	Exophiala jeanselmei, Exophiala dermatitidis, Bipolaris spp.	Alternaria, Curvularia, Exserohilum