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Eosinophilic fasciitis: a rare skin sclerosis.
Patholog Res Int
December 2010
Service d'Anatomie et Cytologie Pathologiques, Hôpital Ambroise Paré, AP-HP, Université de Versailles Saint-Quentin-en-Yvelines, 9 Avenue Charles de Gaulle, 92104 Boulogne-Billancourt Cedex, France.
Eosinophilic fasciitis (Schulman's syndrome) is a rare disease with specific clinical symptoms such as the groove sign which facilitate diagnosis. We report a typical case of eosinophilic fasciitis in an otherwise healthy 49-year-old man who presented with "prayer and groove signs". Histological analysis showed sclerosis and eosinophilic infiltration of the fascia.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFNeural Larva Migrans in an Infant in New York City.
J Neuroparasitology
January 2010
Department of Ophthalmology, Maimonides Medical Center, Brooklyn, NY 11219, USA.
Neural larva migrans (NLM) with eosinophilic meningoencephalitis secondary to raccoon roundworm () infection has been reported in rural and suburban areas of North America and Europe with extant raccoon populations. Most cases have occurred in infants less than two years of age exposed to areas of raccoon fecal contamination. Here, we present a case of -induced NLM from the densely populated borough of Brooklyn in New York City and alert urban pediatricians to consider this cause of clinical neurologic disease even in areas not typically thought to be associated with endemic risk factors.
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