Eruptive pseudoangiomatosis: three cases in Korean middle-aged women.

Sir, Eruptive pseudoangiomatosis (EPA) is a rare, selflimiting exanthem, which is known to occur primarily in children. The first reports on this disease can be traced back to 1969 when Cherry et al. (1) described acute haemangioma-like lesions occurring in children with echovirus infection. No skin biopsies, however, were performed. In 1993, Prose et al. (2) proposed the term ‘eruptive pseudoangiomatosis’. The first adult cases of the disease were reported in 2000 (3, 4). All the cases reported so far, regardless of the age of the patient, were from North America and Europe, while its occurrence in Asians has not previously been documented. We here report three cases of EPA, arising in middle-aged Korean women.