Chicken Pox, Varicella - DermAtlas - Dermatology Image Atlas

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Pushpa Sharma, MD

Diagnosis

chicken pox varicella

Body Site

trunk back

Age

6 years

Pigmentation

medium

Organization

scattered

Color

red yellow

Morphology

vesiculobullous (blister, pustule)

Pattern

central (centrifugal - trunk predominant)

Comments

After 2 days of fever, this 6 year old girl developed widespread itchy red papules that became vesicular with central crusts appearing 1-2 days later. New lesions continued to erupt for 3 days, and all lesions had crusted over within a week.

Description

widespread but predominantly truncal symmetric red papules, vesicles, pustules, some with umbilicated crusts

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1/1/2002 4:23:52

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