Uncommon Foot Pain: A Rare Case of Sequential Migration of Cutaneous Pili Migrans

Kelsen Dos Santos Sales; Anacélia Gomes de Matos Mota; Camilla Teixeira Pinheiro Gusmão; Howard Lopes Ribeiro Junior

doi:10.4103/ijt.ijt_4_21

Uncommon Foot Pain: A Rare Case of Sequential Migration of Cutaneous Pili Migrans

Int J Trichology. 2023 Jan-Feb;15(1):33-35. doi: 10.4103/ijt.ijt_4_21. Epub 2023 Apr 19.

Authors

Kelsen Dos Santos Sales¹, Anacélia Gomes de Matos Mota², Camilla Teixeira Pinheiro Gusmão², Howard Lopes Ribeiro Junior^{3

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Affiliations

¹ Walter Cantídio University Hospital, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
² Center for Research and Drug Development (NPDM), Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
³ Post-Graduate Program of Pathology, Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
⁴ Post-Graduate Program in Translational Medicine, Federal University of Ceara, Fortaleza, CE, Brazil.
⁵ Molecular Oncology Cancer Center, Barretos Cancer Hospital, Teaching and Research Institute, Barretos, SP, Brazil.

Abstract

Cutaneous pili migrans (CPM) is an uncommon condition in which a hair fragment penetrates the skin and produces a creeping lesion similarly of cutaneous larva migrans associated with local pain. There are few reports of CPM in the literature, and none visually describes the migration of the hair shaft in the epidermis associated with pain. Herein, we showed the first report describing a case of an in situ sequential migration of CPM in an adult patient.

Keywords: Diagnosis; emergency; pili migrans.

Publication types

Case Reports