Flea Bite Hypersensitivity
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- Usually involves Type I reaction and Type IV reaction and cutaneous basophil hypersensitivity
- Mainly dorsolumbosacral area involved, abdomen, caudomedial thighs, flanks, neck of cats
- Secondary trauma is self-inflicted
- Grossly:
- Papular dermatitis
- Secondary excoriations
- Alopecic nodule if chronic
- Microscopically:
- Hyperplastic superficial perivascular dermatitis
- Oedema, mast cells, basophils, eosinophils, lymphocytes, histiocytes
- Fibropruritic nodules covered by hyperplastic epidermis