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Crusted scabies in a child with systemic lupus erythematosus
N C Wanke1, C Melo, V Balassiano
1Department of Internal Medicine, School of Medicine, Clementino Fraga Filho University Hospital, Federal University of Rio de Janeiro, Brasil.
Revista Da Sociedade Brasileira De Medicina Tropical
|January 1, 1992
Abstract:
A child with systemic lupus erythematosus who has been treated with prednisone for three years, developed crusted scabies. Scrapings from lesions revealed Sarcoptes scabiei adult mites mad eggs. The patient died with septicemia and renal failure soon after starting topical 20% sulfur. A marked improvement was observed in the cutaneous lesions.