Background. We report a case of necrolytic migratory erythema in a patient with Waldmann’s disease. Patients and methods. A 55-year-old male patient with a history of Waldmann’s disease was hospitalized for a rash o...
A 26-year-old woman with a summer home on Long Island,New York,had a low-grade fever,malaise,arthralgias,headache,and neck pain one week after removing a tick from her thigh.Examination reveals a nontender oval(8 by 1...
Background: Necrolytic migratory erythema is considered to be a paraneoplastic dermatosis. The classical symptoms are associated with α-cell pancreatic islet cell tumor or ‘glucagonoma’. Generally, extracutaneous h...
Background: A longer duration treatment is preferred in erythema migrans (EM) to prevent late complaints. Objectives: To determine whether 20 (20d- pt) or 14 days (14d- pt) of phenoxymethylpenicillin (PenV) have simil...
Background: An erythema migrans (EM) remaining smaller than 5 cm in diameter, called mini EM by us, has not been addressed in detail. Objective: To study the significance of the mini EM as a sign of Lyme borreliosis. ...
Background: Bloodstream invasion in Lyme disease has been difficult to study because until recently blood culture methods were too insensitive to detect spirochetemia. Objective: To evaluate the clinical and laborator...