Erythema Multiforme, Minor, Erythema Multiforme - DermAtlas

Contributor

Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

erythema multiforme, minor erythema multiforme

Body Site

total body leg thigh vulva (labia)

Age

5 years

Pigmentation

light

Organization

scattered

Color

red

Morphology

vesiculobullous (blister, pustule)

Pattern

generalized, disseminated central (centrifugal - trunk predominant)

Comments

This healthy 5-year-old girl developed rapidly progressive red macules, papules and vesicles on the trunk and proximal extremities which became widely disseminated. Her mucous membranes, however, were spared except for some mild conjunctival injection. She cleared within a week on oral steroids. A skin biopsy showed noninflammatory bullae with full separation of the epidermis from the dermis, and direct and indirect immunofluorescence were negative.

Description

generaloized red edematous papules with overlying vesicles and bullae some of which have central crusts and recurrent vesicles and bullae at the periphery

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9/25/2011 14:01:15

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