1Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, IMS and SUM hospital, Siksha “O” Anusandhan University, K8, Kalinganagar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
2Research Scholar Medical Research Laboratory, IMS and SUM hospital, Siksha “O” Anusandhan University, K8, Kalinganagar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
3Assistant Professor, Medical Research Laboratory, IMS and SUM hospital, Siksha “O” Anusandhan University, K8, Kalinganagar, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India
4Associate Professor, Department of Oral Pathology & Microbiology, I.D.S., Siksha “O” Anusandhan, Deemed to be university, BBSR, Odisha, India
*Corresponding author Dr. Santosh K. Swain, Professor, Department of Otorhinolaryngology, IMS and SUM Hospital, Bhubaneswar, Odisha, India Email: santoshvoltaire@yahoo.co.in Cell: 09556524887
Online published on 13 December, 2018.
Headache is a common complaint in day to day clinical practice. Although rarely life threatening, it is a major cause behind the suffering and lack of productivity at work place. Improper diagnosis leads to delayed treatment which gives financial burden to the patient. Clinical evaluation of a headache patient is almost dependent on adequate history taking. By careful diagnosis and appropriate treatment give a great help to the patient. Cutaneous larva migrans, a zoonotic helminthiasis, causes morbidity due to severe, intractable pruritus. However, here we are presenting an unusual cause of frontal headache due to cutaneous larva migrans in frontal area, which is an extremely rare and an interesting incidence in medical literature.
Headache, Helminthiasis, cutaneous larva migrant
