Not only fever and palmoplantar vesicular eruption

Green palmoplantar vesicular eruption in a patient with hyperbilirubinemia

INTRODUCTION Green pigmentation on the palms and soles in patients with hyperbilirubinemia is a rare entity. Eccrine chromhidrosis is an unusual form of green acral pigmentation characterized by the secretion of colored sweat from the eccrine glands. Rarely, eccrine chromhidrosis can mimic an eczematous process leading to misdiagnosis. We report a case of a patient with hyperbilirubinemia who p...

Symmetrical vesicular eruption on the palms.

Volume 85, Number 8 www.aafp.org/afp American Family Physician 811 A 30-year-old woman presented with a nonpruritic vesicular eruption on the palms that began one week earlier. One day before the rash developed, the patient had a burning, tingling sensation in the same area. She did not have a fever or other systemic symptoms. The review of systems was unremarkable, and she was not pregnant. Th...

[Vesicular eruption associated with conjunctival injection].

A noticeable eruption was observed with round erythematous-edematous lesions measuring approximately 1 to 2 cm in diameter, with clear vesicular blisters that were predominant at the periphery of the lesions (Figure 1). The eruption was well extended on the back and in isolated areas of the upper limbs and thorax, with sparing of the acral areas. The patient also presented conjunctivitis in the...

A rare side effect seen due to the use of apixaban: Palmoplantar psoriasiform drug eruption

Psoriasiform drug eruptions are very rare and generally characterized as erythematous, thick, dry, squamous, and demarcated plaques, resembling those of idiopathic psoriasis (1). Drugs may result in the exacerbation of pre-existing psoriasis or initiation of de novo psoriatic lesions (2). Apixaban, a reversible direct inhibitor factor Xa, is a novel anticoagulant, and its side effects mainly in...

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