Dermatitis, Stasis, Id Reaction - DermAtlas

Contributor

Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

dermatitis, stasis id reaction

Body Site

leg total body

Age

55 years

Pigmentation

light

Organization

Color

Morphology

papulosquamous (bump, scale)

Pattern

Comments

A 55 year old man with chronic stasis dermatitis developed a severe flare on his left leg possibly associated with a contact allergic reaction to a topical lubricant. Within 24 hours he erupted with a diffuse pruritic eczematous rash. He improved quickly with tepid tap water compresses and tapering oral steroids. Although he was also treated with oral antibiotics, cultures from exudate from the leg grew only normal skin flora.

Description

red scaly crusted patch

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2/27/2001 6:17:18

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