VizD Radiograph Challenge Week of 8/13/2007
A 33-year-old man presents to your ED with a pruritic rash on his foot. He returned from Guyana 1-week ago where he played volleyball on the beach.
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1. What is the diagnosis?
2. What is the most common cause of this condition?
3. What is the treatment of this condition?
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2 comments:
1. Impetiginized clonal dermatitis and folliculitis.
2. This condition is occurring secondary to scabies.
3. Permethrin 5% cream.
1. Cutaneous Larva Migrans
2. various hookworm sp. such as Ancylostoma braziliense
3. treat with Ivermectin (not for use in the US yet), or Albendazole
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