© 2017 Indian Dermatology Online Journal | Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow A 48‐year‐old female presented with 15‐days‐duration of erythroderma after taking phenytoin. She had erosions covered with thick yellow crusts around the oral cavity, started 12 days after erythroderma. [Figure 1]. Systemic examination and blood investigations were within normal limits. The patient was treated for er...

A Kaposi varicelliform eruption (KVE) refers to a widespread cutaneous infection with a virus that often causes local vesicular eruptions over a pre-existing skin disease. Pemphigus foliaceus complicated by KVE is rare. We report the case of a 68-year-old Chi-nese woman with pemphigus foliaceus complicated by KVE. A 68-year-old woman was admitted to our hospital with a 14-month history of eryth...

Eczema herpeticum (EH), or Kaposi's varicelliform eruption, is a skin infection with herpes simplex type I virus (HSV-1) that occurs in patients with compromised skin integrity, such as atopic dermatitis (AD). Unrecognized, it may be fatal and viremia in pregnancy may lead to fetal demise and miscarriage. We describe a rare case of EH in pregnancy, eczema herpeticum gravidarum (EHG), which is t...

EB: epidermolysis bullosa HSV: herpes simplex virus INTRODUCTION Inherited epidermolysis bullosa (EB) are genodermatoses characterized by the formation of blisters after minor trauma. There are 4 major types of inherited EB: EB simplex, junctional EB, dystrophic EB, and Kindler syndrome. Classification is performed according to the mode of inheritance, the phenotype, the level of skin cleavage ...