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YM is the first son of Tunisian consanguineous parents who developed, at 2 weeks of life, an erythematous and scaly eruption, with subsequent rapid evolution toward generalized pustular psoriasis. Afterward, cutaneous flares of diffuse erythematous rash and pustules involving the whole body appeared, with a once weekly periodicity. Intense irritability was present during flares without fever. M...

Sección de Dermatología, Hospital General de Lanzarote, Spain radiological data to support this hypothesis. Furthermore, the patient was not treated with antituberculous drugs and the cutaneous lesions healed with topical corticosteroid therapy alone. In conclusion, we describe the case of a patient who presented an episode consistent with generalized pustular psoriasis after a tuberculin test,...

Impetigo herpetiformis (pustular psoriasis of pregnancy) is a rare dermatosis of pregnancy that typically starts in the 2nd half of pregnancy and resolves postpartum. It may recur in subsequent pregnancies. I present a case of 23 year old female gravida 4 para 3 with recurrent impetigo herpetiformis at 26 weeks gestation. She presented with a one month history of pustular lesions which responde...

Generalized pustular psoriasis (GPP) is characterized by sudden fever and extensive erythema with pustules and occurs in patients with or without preceding psoriasis vulgaris. We report an 83-year-old man showing irregularly shaped erythema with pustules on the trunk and extremities. He initially had no fever and came to our clinic a few days after the onset of the skin lesions because of high ...

pustules were present concurrently. The patient complained of occasional pruritus and burning. Chronic plaque psoriasis on elbows was confirmed seven years before, for which she received topical corticosteroids. Focal infections were not found on clinical examination. It is important to note that the patient’s smoking habit aggravated the condition. Palmoplantar pustular psoriasis was diagnosed...