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6512050

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rdf:type
lifeskim:mentions
pubmed:issue
6
pubmed:dateCreated
1985-2-5
pubmed:abstractText
Five patients are described with the clinical and histopathologic picture, including flame figures, of eosinophilic cellulitis (Wells' syndrome). Two of them had documented tick bites in the center of these expanding annular lesions, and the histologic picture showed the diagnostic flame figures of Wells' syndrome (eosinophilic cellulitis). A third patient had a clinical picture suggestive of a tick bite reaction but stated she was stung by a small garden bee at the involved site. The fourth patient removed a spider from the site of a spider bite, and this nodule also histopathologically was identical to that of eosinophilic cellulitis. Our fifth patient presented with papular urticaria of flea bites. We suggest that the characteristic flame figures of eosinophilic cellulitis (Wells' syndrome) are not diagnostic of a specific disease entity but rather a striking and peculiar histopathologic response to multiple factors of which arthropod bites (ticks, bees, fleas, and spiders) represent one definite etiology.
pubmed:language
eng
pubmed:journal
pubmed:citationSubset
IM
pubmed:status
MEDLINE
pubmed:month
Dec
pubmed:issn
0190-9622
pubmed:author
pubmed:issnType
Print
pubmed:volume
11
pubmed:owner
NLM
pubmed:authorsComplete
Y
pubmed:pagination
1043-9
pubmed:dateRevised
2004-11-17
pubmed:meshHeading
pubmed:year
1984
pubmed:articleTitle
Eosinophilic cellulitis (Wells' syndrome): histologic and clinical features in arthropod bite reactions.
pubmed:publicationType
Journal Article, Case Reports