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Report of a Case

MARC A. WEINER, M.D.

AMA Arch Derm. 1956;74(6):677-678.

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Dermatophytosis, as is well known, is manifested in a variety of clinical patterns. I believe that the following case is unique in that the infection occurred on the scalp of an adult and the eruption simulated that of larva migrans.

The patient was referred to me by an internist with the diagnosis of "creeping eruption of the scalp and buttocks." He felt sure of his diagnosis because he had seen several cases of this condition during his army service in Florida. The patient, a bus driver, made frequent trips to the Southeastern states. The internist was reluctant, however, to treat the eruption with ethyl chloride spray because of its location on the scalp and because it was more extensive than any of the cases he had previously treated.

Report of Case

The patient was a 43-year-old white man with a fairly well advanced male-pattern alopecia. Through the central . . . [Full Text PDF of this Article]

Author Affiliations
Washington, D. C.

Footnotes
Submitted for publication Nov. 17, 1955.

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