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Chromoblastomycosis is a chronic, often debilitating, suppurative, granulomatus mycosis of the skin and subcutaneous tissues beginning after inoculation trauma. It occurs world-wide, but is more frequently observed in tropical countries such as Brazil. The disease is usually insidious, and the lesions increase slowly but progressively, not responding to the usual treatments and quite often reappearing...