[Cutaneous larva migrans syndrome].
The presence of an erythematous serpiginous cord migrating inside the skin must evoke one of several parasitoses. Such a type of lesion is encountered in distinct diseases including larva migrans, gnathostoma dermatitis, larva currens, Loa-Loa filariosis, dirofilariasis and creeping myiasis.
Martalo
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Service de Dermatopathologie, Université de Liège.
Hermanns
J F
JF
Ekoude
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Piérard
G E
GE
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005368:Filariasis / Q000150:complications; D006801:Humans; D007815:Larva Migrans / Q000175:diagnosis / Q000469:parasitology / Q000473:pathology*; D009198:Myiasis / Q000150:complications*