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Bartonella henselae /Bacillary angiomatosis: cutaneous biopsy

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Hematoxylin and eosin staining of a biopsy specimen of a cutaneous Bacillary angiomatosis lesion demonstrates a dermal vessel lined with protuberant endothelial cells surrounded by myxoid connective tissue containing neutrophils and amphophilic granular material in close proximity to the vascular lumen.

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Jane E. Koehler, MD, University of California San Francisco. (Reprinted with permission from Koehler JE, et al. Cutaneous vascular lesions and disseminated cat-scratch disease in patients with the acquired immunodeficiency syndrome (AIDS) and AIDS-related complex. Ann Intern Med 1988;109:449-455.)

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