The Schoenlein-Henoch syndrome, a condition of unknown aetiology, is defined as the clinical combination of gastro-intestinal symptoms, articular symptoms, and a characteristic exanthema which is usually purpuric. Nephritis may be an associated finding. The few available histological studies stress inflammation of the minute vessels as the dominant pathological feature (Gairdner, 1948). Because...

A 37-year-old Panamanian woman who had been resident in Spain for 18 years presented in the emergency department with a febrile syndrome that had begun 7 days earlier, after her return from a 2-week trip to Panama. Symptoms included intense headache predominantly behind the eyes, joint and muscle pain, and asthenia. At 24 hours she developed a rash on the lower limbs associated with plantar dys...

of lichen planus follicularis tumidus and Hashimoto’s thyroiditis. An Bras Dermatol. 2017;92(4):585-7. Mailing address: Hatice Kaya Ozden Kocaeli Derince Training and Research Hospital Dermatology Department 41900 Kocaeli / Turkey E-mail: [email protected] We observed a slightly itchy, tumid, violaceous plaque in our patient only in the left retroauricular region and classic lichen planus lesion...

Aleukemic leukemia cutis is a rare condition characterized by the infiltration of the skin by leukemic cells before their appearance in the peripheral blood or bone marrow. We report here a 62-year-old seemingly healthy patient who presented with disseminated erythematous maculae. A skin biopsy showed leukemia cutis of monocytic type. No involvement of bone marrow or peripheral blood was found....

Asymmetric periflexural exanthem (APE) is a distinctive exanthem, probably viral in origin. It is largely a disease of childhood and is uncommon in adults. We report an adult man presenting with the typical clinical findings of APE.

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Patients who receive stem cell transplantation (SCT) can develop cutaneous eruptions with systemic involvement such as graft versus host disease (GVHD), drug hypersensitivity syndrome (DIHS), or viral exanthema. These conditions often have overlapping clinical and laboratory presentations may be associated risk factors reactivation medications. In this study, we evaluated the incidence, present...

benefits of the precise definition of such drug reaction subtypes are the introduction of validated scores, e.g. by the EuroSCAR study group for AGEP [4] , SCORTEN for TEN [5] as well as the implementation of recently proposed criteria for DRESS [3, 6] . Overall, these scores and diagnostic criteria enhance the diagnostic accuracy of these distinct drug eruptions and help to evaluate patient gr...