BACKGROUND Pityriasis rosea is a papulosquamous disease. It may occur during pregnancy; in this setting, it has occasionally been associated with adverse outcomes. PURPOSE A woman who developed pityriasis rosea at the beginning of her eighth week of gestation is described. The outcomes in newborns delivered by pregnant women who developed pityriasis rosea during gestation are summarized. ME...

Oğrum A. Unilateral pityriasis rosea in a child: A rare clinical presentation. Turk J Pediatr 2017; 59: 214-216. Pityriasis rosea is a common papulosquamous disorder with occasional variations in lesion morphology, distribution, number and course of disease. The lesions are classically arranged with their long axes parallel to the Langer`s lines of cleavage and typically affect the trunk and th...

dear editor-in-chief   lesional histopathological features in pityriasis rosea (pr) are non-specific (1).  our aim here is to investigate whether a histopathological take-off sign (tos) is associated with pr.

INTRODUCTION Pityriasis rosea is a self-limited inflammatory condition of the skin that mostly affects healthy children and adolescents. Atypical cases of Pityriasis rosea are fairly common and less readily recognized than typical eruptions, and may pose a diagnostic challenge. CASE PRESENTATION We report the case of a 12-year-old black child that developed an intense pruritic papular eruptio...

BACKGROUND Pityriasis rosea is a self-limited inflammatory condition of the skin that mostly affects young adults. Several less common atypical presentations have been reported. CASE PRESENTATION A 6-year old girl with red-brown maculopapular eruption sized 0, 5-1 cm in diameter localized on neck, trunk and popliteal region visited our general pediatric outpatient clinic. The eruption was wid...

OBJECTIVE To detect temporal case clustering in patients with pityriasis rosea in different geographic locations. DESIGN Regression analysis of dates on which 1379 patients were diagnosed as having pityriasis rosea in 3 different geographic locations. The control data consisted of dates of diagnosis of patients with psoriasis in the same settings. SETTING Dermatology clinics in Kuwait, Minn...

218 Indian Dermatology Online Journal | Volume 8 | Issue 3 | May‐June 2017 Many viruses including HHV6 and HHV7 have been proposed as causative agents for pityriasis rosea, although there is no conclusive evidence. Here, we presented a case of pityriasis rosea coexisting with oral HSV1 infection. Our case is unique because purpuric pityriasis rosea has not been associated with HSV1 previously. ...

BACKGROUND Pityriasis rosea is an acute, self-limiting disease, probably infective in origin, affecting mainly children and young adults, characterized by distinctive skin eruptions and minimal constitutional symptoms. Both oral Erythromycin and oral Acyclovir have been used in its management. OBJECTIVES To compare the effectiveness of oral Erythromycin and oral Acyclovir in the treatment of ...

Pityriasis rosea is an acute, self-limited papulosquamous dermatosis of the trunk and extremities. Many atypical forms of the disease have been reported in the literature [Ahmed et al.: Clin Exp Dermatol 2000;25:624-626; Imamura et al.: Dermatologica 1985;171:474-477]. It is rare to find pityriasis rosea in multiple family members (within a household) at the same time. There have been only 4 re...

OBJECTIVE To examine the proposed association between pityriasis rosea and human herpesvirus 7 (HHV-7). DESIGN A retrospective cross-sectional survey. SETTING University medical center in Switzerland. PATIENTS Thirteen patients with pityriasis rosea and 14 persons with normal skin (control subjects). MAIN OUTCOME MEASURES Detection of HHV-7-specific DNA sequences and antigen (85-kd phos...