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Localized crusted scabies of the scalp and feet
E J Lewis1, S B Connolly, C E Crutchfield
1Department of Dermatology, University of Minnesota, Minneapolis 55455-0392, USA.
Cutis
|March 27, 1998
Abstract:
An atypical case of crusted scabies in a patient with acquired immunodeficiency syndrome is presented in which lesions at the time of evaluation were confined to the scalp and feet. Because of the unusual presentation, the scalp involvement (which clinically mimicked seborrheic dermatitis) was initially missed. Although both the crusted variant of scabies and scabietic involvement of the scalp are well documented to occur in immunocompromised patients, to our knowledge scabies confined to the scalp and feet has not been previously reported.