Table 1.
Summary of clinical, serological, pathological and molecular data
| Case no. |
Sex | Age | Swelling (days) |
CRP (< 5 mg/L) |
WBC count (< 11.3 G/L) |
Biopsy | Histology | Serologic testing |
PCR | Culture |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | m | 26 | 38 | 0.6 | 4.8 | IB | Granulomatous inflammation with necrosis | n.a. | pos | neg |
| 2 | m | 16 | 29 | 21.9 | 11.2 | n.d. | n.a. | 1:256 | n.a. | n.a. |
| 3 | f | 22 | 28 | 0.6 | 6.6 | n.d. | n.a. | 1:64 | n.a. | n.a. |
| 4 | m | 36 | 42 | 2.1 | 5.1 | EB | Granulomatous inflammation with necrosis | n.a. | pos | neg |
| 5 | f | 12 | 23 | 1.0 | 7.6 | n.d. | n.a. | 1:256 | n.a. | n.a. |
| 6 | f | 26 | 17 | 1.1 | 6.3 | CNB | Granulomatous inflammation with necrosis | n.a. | pos | neg |
| 7 | f | 40 | 33 | n.a. | n.a. | n.d. | n.a. | 1:64 | n.a. | n.a. |
| 8 | f | 27 | 21 | 16.9 | 7.7 | EB | Granulomatous inflammation with necrosis | 1:256 | pos | neg |
| 9 | m | 74 | 150 | 3.6 | 6.2 | CNB, | Granulomatous inflammation with necrosis, | n.a. | pos | neg |
| IB, EB | metastasis of malignant melanoma | |||||||||
| 10 | f | 37 | 270 | n.a. | n.a. | EB | Granulomatous inflammation with necrosis | n.a. | pos | n.a. |
Legend: CNB: core-needle biopsy; CRP: C-reactive protein; EB: excision biopsy; IB: incision biopsy; n.a.: not available; n.d.: not done; neg: negative; PCR: polymerase chain reaction; pos: positive; WBC: white blood cell.