Anthrax - DermAtlas - Dermatology Image Atlas

Contributor

Jayakar Thomas, MD. PhD

Diagnosis

anthrax

Body Site

abdomen

Age

55 years

Pigmentation

medium

Organization

Color

black red

Morphology

ulcerated (erosion / ulcer)

Pattern

solitary

Comments

A 55-year-old man with a fever for 10 days developed a crusted plaqaue on his left flank. There was a black eschar with surrounding erythema and small vesicles. Two weeks earlier his grandson developed a similar lesion associated with high fever, sepsis, seizures and death.

Description

crusted plaque with central eschar and surrounding erythema and scale

Image Added

1/17/2004 10:01:19

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