Le syndrome d'ekbom : un diagnostic différentiel des ectoparasitoses

✍ Scribed by Patrice Bourée; Alice Pérignon

• Publisher: Elsevier Science
• Year: 2001
• Tongue: French
• Weight: 219 KB
• Volume: 2001
• Category: Article
• ISSN: 0338-9898
• DOI: 10.1016/s0338-9898(01)80354-1

✦ Synopsis

Le syndrome d'Ekbom, ou delire & ectoparasites, correspond & un sentiment inebranlable d'etre infeste de parasites qui sortent de la peau. Cette affection survient surtout chez la femme &gee. II y a une croyance irr6ductible dans la presence d'ectoparasites, entraTnant de multiples consultations, avec un apport reitere de la preuve (signe de la bofte d'allumettes) qui ne sont, en fait, que des residus de tissus ou de peau, mais en aucun cas des parasites.

L'evolution est chronique, pendant plusieurs annees. Un neuroleptique, le pimozide, a donne des resultats interessants.

Ectoparasites -syndrome d'Ekbom -d(Hire d'infestation.

Summary

The Ekbom syndrom is a disorder, in which patients believe strongly they have the skin infested by parasites. Such a disease occurs mostly in old women.

There is an unshakeable belief in the presence of ectoparasites, leading to multiple medical advices, were they bring the proof (match-box symptom) which are, as a matter of fact, only residues of woven or skin, but in no case parasites. This chronic disease can pursues its course during several years. A neuroleptic (pimozide) is the resort now mostly recommanded, with interesting results.