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case_images: Characteristic ulcerated lesion with exudation and infiltration in the nasal base, filter, palate, and balanoprepucial sulcus.
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case_images: In 2014, a 35-year-old male resident of Rio de Janeiro was admitted with ulcerated lesions on his nasal septum, nasal cavity, palate, and balanopreputial sulcus (Figure 1).
case_images: Nasal collapse on the right.
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case_images: He presented with right-side nasal collapse and an erythematous lesion, which extended from the filter to the interior of the nasal orifice (Figure 2).
case_images: Histopathological examination results of the nasal mucosa, showing acute and chronic ulcerated inflammatory processes with giant cell reaction (Langerhans cells) and epithelioid histocytes, compatible with a diagnosis of leishmaniasis.
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case_images: There were marked acute and chronic inflammatory processes with a giant cell reaction (Langhans cells) and epithelioid histocytes, compatible with a diagnosis of leishmaniasis (Figure 3).