Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy: a case report.

نویسندگان

  • Burçe Can
  • Mukaddes Kavala
  • Zafer Türkoğlu
  • Ebru Zemheri
چکیده

Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy is a cutaneous leukocytoclastic vasculitis, clinically characterized by the acute development of peripheral edema and targetoid purpuric lesions on the face and extremities. The clinical picture has a violent onset with a short benign course followed by spontaneous complete recovery. We describe a five-month-old boy with acute hemorrhagic edema, in whom the disease appeared after antibiotic treatment for a cellulitis in front of the tragus.

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عنوان ژورنال:
  • International journal of dermatology

دوره 43 1  شماره 

صفحات  -

تاریخ انتشار 2004