Scabies with clinical features and positive darier sign mimicking mastocytosis.
Scabies is a common human parasitic infection in infants and children. But diagnosis pitfalls are frequent in infants, in whom the clinical presentation is usually atypical and different from adults. We report a misleading case of a 5-month-old child, who presented with pruritic brown-red macules of the trunk showing a positive Darier's sign, suggestive of an urticaria pigmentosa.
Phan
Alice
A
Department of dermatology, Hôtel-Dieu Hospital, Claude Bernard University Lyon, CEDEX France.
Dalle
Stéphane
S
Balme
Brigitte
B
Thomas
Luc
L
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D008415:Mastocytosis / Q000175:diagnosis*; D012532:Scabies / Q000175:diagnosis*; D014582:Urticaria Pigmentosa / Q000175:diagnosis*