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Folliculitis and perifolliculitis of the head abscessing subversive Hoffmann: causes, symptoms, diagnosis, treatment
Last reviewed: 23.04.2024
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Causes. The causative agent of the disease is Gram-positive Staphylococcus aureus.
Symptoms of folliculitis and perifolliculitis of the head abscessed undermining Hoffmann. The disease is common in young men. On the scalp, usually in the region of the crown and occiput, knots of oblong or kidney-shaped yellowish-white or cherry-red color, soft or fluctuating consistency are formed. With a close arrangement of nodes and abscesses, sinuous foci resemble brain gyruses. With pressure from the fistula pus is released. The skin above them is devoid of hair, tightened, thinned, sometimes ulcerated. The disease lasts for a long time, the exacerbation alternates with remissions.
Histopathology. There is a morphological picture, as with conglobata acne.
Differential diagnosis. The disease should be distinguished from colliquated and warty tuberculosis of the skin, deep mycoses, tertiary syphilis.
Treatment of folliculitis and perifolliculitis of the head of abscessed undermining Hoffmann. Prescribe broad-spectrum antibiotics or determine the sensitivity of the pathogen to antibiotics. Apply fortifying, vitamin preparations, immunostimulants, external - aniline dyes, antibiotic ointments and physiotherapeutic procedures (UHF, darsonval, low-intensive helium-neon laser).
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