Transient Neonatal Pustular Melanosis - DermAtlas

Contributor

Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

transient neonatal pustular melanosis

Body Site

foot sole

Age

9 days

Pigmentation

light

Organization

scattered

Color

brown

Morphology

vesiculobullous (blister, pustule)

Pattern

symmetric generalized, disseminated

Comments

A healthy vigorous newborn was noted to have widely scattered crusted papules with prominent lesions on his soles. A skin biopsy showed a mixed superficial dermal inflammatory infiltrate with numerous neutrophils consistent with a benign pustular eruption. The lesions healed over several weeks without scarring.

Description

scattered thick crusts

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11/30/2003 19:05:36

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