Sentences with phrase «skin scraping necessary»

Demodex infection, particularly adult - onset demodicosis, is usually accompanied by pyoderma, making cytology and deep skin scraping necessary in most patients.

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Scrape the skin a little to see the color of the flesh, if necessary.

If a deep pyoderma is present, skin scrapings may be falsely negative due to easy bleeding of the lesions with the scraping, and a biopsy may be necessary to rule out demodicosis.

A skin scraping is usually necessary to detect Demodex mites though it is important to note that mites can be elusive even with multiple skin scrape samples.