New-Onset Blistering Eruption in a Young Child

A Blistering Eruption in an Immunocompromised Man

A 51-year-old man with a history of thyroid cancer and stage IV peripheral T-cell lymphoma presented emergently to the hospital with a 1-week history of a diffuse, painful eruption. He had received 6 cycles of chemotherapy and 7 weeks prior had received an autologous stem cell transplant as treatment for his lymphoma and was started on fluconazole and acyclovir at that time. Three weeks prior t...

Bullosis diabeticorum: A distinctive blistering eruption in diabetes mellitus

Dear Sir, A 41year-old man with known type-1 diabetes presented with acute onset, asymptomatic, spontaneous, tense blisters of two days’ duration on his right foot. The patient was on human insulin and there was no history of trauma or friction from footwear prior to the eruption. There was no history of photosensitivity and the patient could not recall any new drug intake in the preceding coup...

A man with a blistering eruption and tuberculosis.

Blistering eruption following a rubefacient rub for shoulder discomfort.

Annals Academy of Medicine Dear Editor, A 96-year-old woman was referred as an emergency with a suspected allergic reaction to Deep Heat® rub (Mentholatum Company Ltd, East Kilbride, Scotland). Five days before referral, she developed pain and stiffness of her left neck and shoulder. Because of this discomfort, assumed to be muscular, she started applying an over-the-counter rubefacient,1 calle...

Blistering eruption on the leg of an adult.

Volume 84, Number 2 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 231 A 62-year-old white man presented with blistering of the skin on his lower extremity. The rash began two weeks prior on the anterior surface of his right ankle and did not improve with a one-week course of ciprofloxacin (Cipro). A similar rash subsequently developed on the lateral surface of his right thigh. He denied any foreig...