ABSTRACT
Mycetoma is an chronic inflammatory process which affects subcutaneous tissue, but sometimes also bones, and rarely viscerae. The most frequent site of involvement is the foot, with tumefaction, deformities, and draining sinus tracts which discharge a seropurulent exudate with parasitic granules. It begins with traumatic abrasion of the skin and the inoculation of a fungus or an actinomycete, and is known as eumycetoma or actinomycetoma, respectively. The highest incidence is in the rural population.
