This week's case is generously donated by Dr. Evis Nushi who identified the following structure in direct microscopy of skin scrapings. What is seen here?
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3 comments:
Looks like a Demodex sp., a follicle mite.
A. in Maine
The patient must have hit an impasse in life, making him scratch his forehead. The scratching uprooted this Demodex folliculorum.😄
Nice one Florida Fan! Hihi!
All those weird and strange things that I found during my career and yet I have never ever seen a Demodex mite in real life… and yet, as we age, we all get them in the end…
Maybe I should scratch my own forehead and check the scrapings under my microscope?
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