Tick masquerading as skin tag − A rare case report

• Main Authors: Seethalakshmi Ganga Vellaisamy (Author), Navakumar Manickam (Author), Anbulenin Kulandaivel (Author), Kannan Gopalan (Author)
• Format: Book
• Published: Wolters Kluwer Medknow Publications, 2022-01-01T00:00:00Z.
• Subjects: article
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We report the case of a 16-year-old boy who presented with a painful skin lesion over the left lower eye lid following a history of travel to forest which masqueraded as skin tag. Excision biopsy showed features suggestive of hard tick. We report this unusual case of tick bite mainly to stress the i...