Tick Bite Granuloma: Recommendations for Surgical Treatment

Tick bite is known as a possible cause of some infectious diseases such as Lyme disease, spotted fever and related illnesses. The reaction to a tick bite may persist for sev-eral months to several years and can sometimes cause histopathological granuloma. The long-term reaction to salivary extracts from the tick could be responsible for development of granuloma in our patient. We recom-mended complete resection as the only sure way to treat formed granuloma. Key words granuloma; histopathology; tick; treatment Tick bite is known as a possible cause of Lyme disease and spotted fever related illnesses.1 Sometimes it also causes an immune reaction resulting in granuloma for-mation, even in the absence of parts of the tick’s mout