A Desquamating Skin Rash in a Pediatric Patient

A diffuse painful desquamating rash.

Pediatric Patient with a Rash

A 2 year old fully immunized male with no personal history of chicken pox presented to the emergency department with a chief complaint of a rash for one week after returning from a hiking trip in a remote island in Canada. After initially being diagnosed with contact dermatitis, a diagnosis of herpes zoster was made by confirmatory viral polymerase chain reaction testing. The purpose of this ca...

Skin rash in a jaundiced patient.

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A case of desquamating rash associated with methadone use.

A man who had been taking prescribed methadone for many years presented with a desquamating rash (predominantly affecting the hands and feet) complicated by cellulitis of the right leg. There have now been multiple reports of a similar rash among methadone users in Sydney. The cause remains unknown.

Skin rash in novel H7N9 influenza infection: a concern