Case Reports in Dermatology (Jan 2010)

Ectopic Cutaneous Schistosomiasis mansoni in the Sacral Region

  • Pedro Raso,
  • Cibele Fontes Alves,
  • Alexandre Tafuri,
  • Wagner Luiz Tafuri

DOI
https://doi.org/10.1159/000266993
Journal volume & issue
Vol. 2, no. 1
pp. 1 – 7

Abstract

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The authors report one case of late cutaneous Schistosomiasis mansoni in a biopsy of a skin lesion in the sacral region in a 51-year-old female living in Contagem, Minas Gerais. The patient was treated successfully with oxamniquine (Mansil®).

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