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Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

Staphylococcal infection folliculitis cellulitis boil

Body Site

buttock vulva (labia)

Age

2 years

Pigmentation

dark

Organization

grouped, clustered discrete confluent

Color

red

Morphology

papule

Pattern

asymmetric central (centrifugal - trunk predominant)

Comments

This healthy toddler had a history of recurrent folliculitis and boils. A culture grew methicillin resistant Staphylococcus aureus which cleared with oral sulfamethoxazole-trimethroprim.

Description

red follicular papules and pustules and indurated painful right inferior buttock and labia

Categories

infections and infestations

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9/24/2006 22:04:52

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