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We report a case of superficial white onychomycosis associated with HIV infection in a 3-year-old girl. To our knowledge, this type of onychomycosis has not been previously reported in HIV-infected prepubertal children.

No intra or post-surgical mortality or life-threatening local complications were detected. Most post-surgical local complications appeared after wide excisions and complex reconstruction techniques that prolonged the length of the surgery.

A 42-year-old man with uveitis and a widespread cutaneous eruption, histopathologically characterized by dermal granulomatous infiltrates with perineurial invasion, was incorrectly diagnosed and treated as having borderline leprosy. Further studies demonstrated secondary syphilis and human immunodeficiency virus (HIV) infection. Standard penicillin therapy resolved his cutaneous and ocular lesions. Reports on clinical and pathological findings of active syphilis in HIV infected patients are scarce but this case and isolated previous case reports suggest that granulomatous infiltrates might be a common feature in secondary syphilis with short evolution in HIV infected patients.

Mucin deposition in patients with dermatomyositis may have an unusual clinical presentation, and it should be considered in the differential diagnosis of atypical cutaneous lesions in these patients.