Cutaneous Larva Migrans - DermAtlas - Dermatology Image Atlas

Contributor

Peter Claybour

Diagnosis

cutaneous larva migrans

Body Site

leg thigh

Age

4 years

Pigmentation

medium

Organization

serpiginous linear

Color

red brown

Morphology

plaqulous (plaque / nodule / tumor)

Pattern

asymmetric

Comments

Two weeks after returning from a beach vacation in Jamaica with his family this 4-year-old boy developed an itchy progressive serpiginous eruption on his leg. The first image shows the skin eruption shortly after it appeared. The other images were acquired the following week as the lesion progressed. Note the edematous red papule at the advancing border and the resolving distal trail.

Description

6 cm narrow serpiginous hyperpigmented red plaque with an edematous red papule on an urticarial base at the end

Image Added

4/27/2008 12:20:08

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