Periumbilical purpura: challenge and answer. Diagnosis: Strongyloides stercoralis hyperinfection

Am J Dermatopathol. 2014 Nov;36(11):899-900, 907. doi: 10.1097/DAD.0000000000000177.
No abstract available

Publication types

  • Case Reports

MeSH terms

  • Animals
  • Antinematodal Agents / therapeutic use
  • Biopsy
  • Fatal Outcome
  • Humans
  • Ivermectin / therapeutic use
  • Male
  • Middle Aged
  • Purpura / diagnosis
  • Purpura / drug therapy
  • Purpura / parasitology*
  • Skin / parasitology*
  • Skin / pathology
  • Strongyloides stercoralis / drug effects
  • Strongyloides stercoralis / isolation & purification*
  • Strongyloidiasis / diagnosis
  • Strongyloidiasis / drug therapy
  • Strongyloidiasis / parasitology*
  • Time Factors
  • Treatment Outcome

Substances

  • Antinematodal Agents
  • Ivermectin