COEXISTENCE OF AN UNUSUAL FORM OF SCABIES AND LEPROMATOUS LEPROSY - ACASE-REPORT

Authors
BARBOSA AD SILVA TMC SANTOS MIR GARRIDO MDF PATEL BN CAVALCANTI M RICCIO MCO
Citation
Ad. Barbosa et al., COEXISTENCE OF AN UNUSUAL FORM OF SCABIES AND LEPROMATOUS LEPROSY - ACASE-REPORT, Pathology research and practice, 192(1), 1996, pp. 88-90
Citations number
8
Categorie Soggetti
Pathology
Journal title
Pathology research and practice → ACNP
ISSN journal
03440338
Volume
192
Issue
1
Year of publication
1996
Pages
88 - 90
Database
ISI
SICI code
0344-0338(1996)192:1<88:COAUFO>2.0.ZU;2-7
Abstract
A case of unusual crusted (Norwegian) scabies involving the entire ski n of a 26 year old Brazilian patient with lepromatous leprosy is repor ted. The more Prominent histopathological findings were acanthosis, hy perkeratosis and crusting with many mites of Sarcoptes scabiei. In the dermis, numerous foamy histiocytes filled with abundant acid-fast bac illi were seen.