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Crusts

Crusting and scaling are not the same!

Severe crusting in a dog with scabies of several months duration
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Severe crusting in a dog with scabies of several months duration

Crust
A dried exudate on the skin surface, either serum, blood or pus or a combination.

 

 

 

Crusts are commonly seen in diseases with a pustular component (eg canine pyoderma, pemphigus foliaceus), and where the exudate from erosions and ulcers dries on the surface of the lesion.

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