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Ofuji's disease in an immunocompetent patient successfully treated with dapsone
Eosinophilic pustular folliculitis or Ofuji's disease is a non-infectious eosinophilic infiltration of hair follicles, which usually presents with itchy papules and pustules in a circinate configuration. We report this case of an immunocompetent patient with erythematous papules and plaques wit...
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5038103/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27730038 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5178.190497 |
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author | Anjaneyan, Gopikrishnan Manne, Sindhura Panicker, Vinitha Varghese Eapen, Malini |
author_facet | Anjaneyan, Gopikrishnan Manne, Sindhura Panicker, Vinitha Varghese Eapen, Malini |
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description | Eosinophilic pustular folliculitis or Ofuji's disease is a non-infectious eosinophilic infiltration of hair follicles, which usually presents with itchy papules and pustules in a circinate configuration. We report this case of an immunocompetent patient with erythematous papules and plaques without macropustules diagnosed as eosinophilic pustular folliculitis—a rarely reported entity outside Japan. He was successfully treated with oral dapsone. |
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spelling | pubmed-50381032016-10-11 Ofuji's disease in an immunocompetent patient successfully treated with dapsone Anjaneyan, Gopikrishnan Manne, Sindhura Panicker, Vinitha Varghese Eapen, Malini Indian Dermatol Online J Case Report Eosinophilic pustular folliculitis or Ofuji's disease is a non-infectious eosinophilic infiltration of hair follicles, which usually presents with itchy papules and pustules in a circinate configuration. We report this case of an immunocompetent patient with erythematous papules and plaques without macropustules diagnosed as eosinophilic pustular folliculitis—a rarely reported entity outside Japan. He was successfully treated with oral dapsone. Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016 /pmc/articles/PMC5038103/ /pubmed/27730038 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5178.190497 Text en Copyright: © Indian Dermatology Online Journal http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-sa/3.0 This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-ShareAlike 3.0 License, which allows others to remix, tweak, and build upon the work non-commercially, as long as the author is credited and the new creations are licensed under the identical terms. |
spellingShingle | Case Report Anjaneyan, Gopikrishnan Manne, Sindhura Panicker, Vinitha Varghese Eapen, Malini Ofuji's disease in an immunocompetent patient successfully treated with dapsone |
title | Ofuji's disease in an immunocompetent patient successfully treated with dapsone |
title_full | Ofuji's disease in an immunocompetent patient successfully treated with dapsone |
title_fullStr | Ofuji's disease in an immunocompetent patient successfully treated with dapsone |
title_full_unstemmed | Ofuji's disease in an immunocompetent patient successfully treated with dapsone |
title_short | Ofuji's disease in an immunocompetent patient successfully treated with dapsone |
title_sort | ofuji's disease in an immunocompetent patient successfully treated with dapsone |
topic | Case Report |
url | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5038103/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/27730038 http://dx.doi.org/10.4103/2229-5178.190497 |
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