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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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Autores principales: Anjaneyan, Gopikrishnan, Manne, Sindhura, Panicker, Vinitha Varghese, Eapen, Malini
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Publicado: Medknow Publications & Media Pvt Ltd 2016
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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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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.
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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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