Wells Syndrome – An Odyssey
DOI:
https://doi.org/10.3889/oamjms.2019.572Keywords:
Eosinophilic skin diseases, Wells syndrome, Flame figure, Eosinophila, Treatment, Interleukin-5Abstract
BACKGROUND: Wells syndrome is a rare idiopathic dermatosis of the eosinophilic spectrum. Diagnostic criteria include cutaneous eruptions of variable morphology with eosinophilic infiltrates, peripheral blood eosinophilia, a relapsing, remitting course, and exclusion of systemic disease. Diagnosis is often delayed.
CASE PRESENTATION: We present a 28-year older man with recently developed pruritic and sometimes painful erythema. His medical history was positive for coughing in the evening that started in November 2012. Later, a pansinusitis developed. Early diagnosis improves the outcome.
CONCLUSION: Standardized treatment has yet to be developed. In our case, systemic corticosteroids were of limited value only.
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Copyright (c) 2019 Birgit Heinig, Aleksandra Vojvodic, Torello Lotti, Michael Tirant, Uwe Wollina (Author)
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