Filariasis, Lymphedema - DermAtlas - Dermatology Image Atlas

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M.Murat Akyil, MD

Diagnosis

filariasis lymphedema

Body Site

leg foot ankle

Age

60 years

Pigmentation

medium

Organization

confluent

Color

brown

Morphology

edema

Pattern

asymmetric

Comments

This 60-year-old man with filariasis for 25 years experienced progressive lymphedema of the right leg. Filariasis is a chronic filarial infection caused by Wucheria bancrofti, a thin round worm which frequently infects humans in the tropics. Bancroft discovered Wucheria bancrofti in 1876. His first report on this was in the form of a letter to Thomas Spencer Cobbold (1828-1886), who published it in The Lancet (1877, 2: 70-71) and coined the term bancrofti.

Description

massive edema with overlying scale and hyperpigmentation

Image Added

12/22/2003 8:26:40

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