[Morphology of the skin manifestations of Lyme disease].
The paper describes a case of a long-lasting chronic migrant erythema (ME) in an 82-year-old female, which developed after the bite of an insect (a tick?). The specific feature of this case is an unusual duration (2 years) of a single focus of ME and autopsy of the skin revealed giant cells with centrally arranged 3-5 nuclei and cytoplam with PAS-positive inclusions as tiny (5 m) oblong formations, that may be Borelia.
Kudrina
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Clinical Hospital, President Administration, 121356 Moscow.
Anan'eva
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Makarenko
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D000368:Aged; D000369:Aged, 80 and over; D001898:Borrelia; D015787:Erythema Chronicum Migrans / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D008193:Lyme Disease / Q000473:pathology*; D012867:Skin / Q000382:microbiology / Q000473:pathology