Cutaneous larva migrans on the scalp: atypical presentation of a common disease()

Cutaneous larva migrans is a pruritic dermatitis due to the inoculation of helminths larvae in the skin, and it often occurs in children in tropical and subtropical areas. The authors describe an atypical case of cutaneous larva migrans in a 11 year-old child with scalp involvement, an unusual topog...

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Autores principales: Meotti, Carolina Degen, Plates, Glaura, Nogueira, Letycia Lopes Chagas, da Silva, Renata Anselme, Paolini, Karoline Silva, Nunes, Elias Moreira, Bernardes, Fred
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2014
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4008069/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24770515
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20142987
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author Meotti, Carolina Degen
Plates, Glaura
Nogueira, Letycia Lopes Chagas
da Silva, Renata Anselme
Paolini, Karoline Silva
Nunes, Elias Moreira
Bernardes, Fred
author_facet Meotti, Carolina Degen
Plates, Glaura
Nogueira, Letycia Lopes Chagas
da Silva, Renata Anselme
Paolini, Karoline Silva
Nunes, Elias Moreira
Bernardes, Fred
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description Cutaneous larva migrans is a pruritic dermatitis due to the inoculation of helminths larvae in the skin, and it often occurs in children in tropical and subtropical areas. The authors describe an atypical case of cutaneous larva migrans in a 11 year-old child with scalp involvement, an unusual topography for this lesion.
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spelling pubmed-40080692014-05-07 Cutaneous larva migrans on the scalp: atypical presentation of a common disease() Meotti, Carolina Degen Plates, Glaura Nogueira, Letycia Lopes Chagas da Silva, Renata Anselme Paolini, Karoline Silva Nunes, Elias Moreira Bernardes, Fred An Bras Dermatol Case Report Cutaneous larva migrans is a pruritic dermatitis due to the inoculation of helminths larvae in the skin, and it often occurs in children in tropical and subtropical areas. The authors describe an atypical case of cutaneous larva migrans in a 11 year-old child with scalp involvement, an unusual topography for this lesion. Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2014 /pmc/articles/PMC4008069/ /pubmed/24770515 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20142987 Text en http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Meotti, Carolina Degen
Plates, Glaura
Nogueira, Letycia Lopes Chagas
da Silva, Renata Anselme
Paolini, Karoline Silva
Nunes, Elias Moreira
Bernardes, Fred
Cutaneous larva migrans on the scalp: atypical presentation of a common disease()
title Cutaneous larva migrans on the scalp: atypical presentation of a common disease()
title_full Cutaneous larva migrans on the scalp: atypical presentation of a common disease()
title_fullStr Cutaneous larva migrans on the scalp: atypical presentation of a common disease()
title_full_unstemmed Cutaneous larva migrans on the scalp: atypical presentation of a common disease()
title_short Cutaneous larva migrans on the scalp: atypical presentation of a common disease()
title_sort cutaneous larva migrans on the scalp: atypical presentation of a common disease()
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC4008069/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/24770515
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.20142987
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