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CASE REPORT
Year : 2023  |  Volume : 15  |  Issue : 1  |  Page : 33-35

Uncommon foot pain: A rare case of sequential migration of cutaneous pili migrans


1 Walter Cantídio University Hospital, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil
2 Center for Research and Drug Development (NPDM), Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil
3 Post-Graduate Program of Pathology; Post-Graduate Program in Translational Medicine, Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, CE; Molecular Oncology Cancer Center, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Teaching and Research Institute, Barretos, SP, Brazil

Correspondence Address:
Howard Lopes Ribeiro Junior
Department of Morphology, Federal University of Ceara, R. Delmiro de Farias, S/N, Rodolfo Teófilo, CEP 60430-170, Fortaleza, CE
Brazil
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DOI: 10.4103/ijt.ijt_4_21

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Cutaneous pili migrans (CPM) is an uncommon condition in which a hair fragment penetrates the skin and produces a creeping lesion similarly of cutaneous larva migrans associated with local pain. There are few reports of CPM in the literature, and none visually describes the migration of the hair shaft in the epidermis associated with pain. Herein, we showed the first report describing a case of an in situ sequential migration of CPM in an adult patient.


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