Imaging of cutaneous larva migrans by optical coherence tomography

Travel Medicine and Infectious Disease

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 243-246

  Morsy, Hanan ^a   Mogensen, Mette ^a   Thomsen, Jakob ^b   Thrane, Lars ^b   Andersen, Peter E ^b   Jemec, Gregor B E ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^b TECHNICAL UNIVERSITY OF DENMARK   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Creeping eruption; Cutaneous larva migrans; Optical coherence tomography; Optical imaging; Ultrasound

Indexed keywords

IVERMECTIN;

ADULT; ANCYLOSTOMA CANINUM; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; CLINICAL FEATURE; CRYOTHERAPY; DENMARK; DIAGNOSTIC VALUE; EPIDERMIS; FEMALE; HUMAN; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IN VIVO STUDY; LARVA; LARVA MIGRANS; LEISURE; MALAYSIA; NEMATODE; NON INVASIVE MEASUREMENT; OPTICAL COHERENCE TOMOGRAPHY; PARASITIC SKIN DISEASE; PATHOGENESIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PRURITUS; RASH; SCHOOL CHILD; SEASHORE; SKIN DEFECT; SKIN STRUCTURE; THAILAND; TRAVEL;

ANIMALS; CHILD; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; FEMALE; HUMANS; LARVA MIGRANS; MIDDLE AGED; TOMOGRAPHY, OPTICAL COHERENCE;

EID: 34250014198     PISSN: 14778939     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2006.12.004     Document Type: Article

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