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Mahmoud Hijazy, PH.D

Diagnosis

chicken pox viral infections, exanthem purpura fulminans disseminated intravascular coagulation

Body Site

total body perineum trunk

Age

9 months

Pigmentation

dark

Organization

discrete confluent

Color

red purple black

Morphology

vesiculobullous (blister, pustule)

Pattern

generalized, disseminated central (centrifugal - trunk predominant)

Comments

This healthy 9-month-old girl with chicken pox developed purpura fulminans which is a rare complication of the usually benign childhood viral infection.

Description

resolving hemorrhagic vesicles and crusts and large areas of purpura and necrosis

Categories

infections and infestations purpura

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3/29/2009 20:06:56

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