A 10-year-old female patient, from the province of MisÃ©rez, who consulted the Symptomatology Service due to the appearance of multiple plaques on her face, with multiple plaques on her feet. The patient had multiple manifestations.
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The lesions caused pain and made it difficult to walk.
After surgical extraction, about 20 tubes were obtained and the extracted samples were sent to the pathology service, which confirmed the diagnosis of tungiasis.
The patient was treated with oral vermilion 200 μg/kg as adjuvant therapy, due to the great cutaneous involvement and the multiplicity of lesions.
The lesions evolved favorably with complete resolution.
