Larva migrans with eosinophilic papular folliculitis.
A patient with typical larva migrans lesions associated with a highly pruritic papular folliculitis is presented. The time course of the evolution and the pathological picture - with local accumulation of lymphocytes, mast cells and eosinophils - mirror a typical thymus-dependent reaction to parasitic infestation. The papular and serpiginous lesions did not respond to the same type of therapy.
D000328:Adult; D004802:Eosinophilia / Q000150:complications* / Q000276:immunology; D005499:Folliculitis / Q000150:complications* / Q000276:immunology / Q000469:parasitology; D006801:Humans; D007815:Larva Migrans / Q000150:complications* / Q000276:immunology; D008297:Male