Transient Neonatal Pustular Melanosis - DermAtlas

Contributor

Jolita Bekhof, MD

Diagnosis

transient neonatal pustular melanosis

Body Site

leg

Age

6 days

Pigmentation

dark

Organization

scattered

Color

red white/hypo

Morphology

pustule

Pattern

generalized, disseminated symmetric

Comments

A healthy newborn boy was evaluated for generalized 1-2 mm pustules. The child appeared well. Bacterial culture of one of the pustules was negative, and a Gram stain revealed neutrophils without organisms. Transient neonatal pustular melanosis (or rather pustulosis in this light pigmented child) is a benign self-limited eruption which resolved quickly without treatment.

Description

generalized 1-2 mm pustules

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4/15/2006 18:19:27

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