Scabies - DermAtlas - Dermatology Image Atlas

Contributor

Kosman Sadek Zikry, MD

Diagnosis

scabies

Body Site

back arm shoulder

Age

8 years

Pigmentation

dark

Organization

Color

purple

Morphology

papulosquamous (bump, scale)

Pattern

symmetric

Comments

Scabies spread throughout a family including the parents, an adolescent daughter, and an 8 year old daughter. All of them developed an itchy widespread eczematous dermatitis. In several individuals borrows were evident. They all cleared with the application of 5 percent permethrin cream.

Description

red edematous crusted disseminated papules and pustules: burrows

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3/24/2002 23:09:27

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