Miliaria Crystallina, Nevus, Pigmented - DermAtlas

Contributor

Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

miliaria crystallina nevus, pigmented

Body Site

chest

Age

13 years

Pigmentation

light

Organization

scattered

Color

skin color

Morphology

vesiculobullous (blister, pustule)

Pattern

generalized, disseminated

Comments

This severely ill adolescent with multiorgan failure and high fever developed widespread 2 mm vesicles on a non-inflammatory base on her trunk and proximal extremities. In areas where the miliaria were most prominent she had fine scaling which probably obstructed the sweat ducts in the stratum corneum high in the epidermis.

Description

2 mm glistening superficial vesicles

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3/23/2002 23:45:55

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