Strawberry Tongue, Scarlet Fever, Erythroderma - DermAtlas

Contributor

Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

strawberry tongue scarlet fever erythroderma

Body Site

tongue mouth

Age

4 years

Pigmentation

light

Organization

confluent

Color

red

Morphology

papulosquamous (bump, scale)

Pattern

generalized, disseminated

Comments

A diffuse scarlatiniform eruption developed on this 4-year-old boy who demonstrates his strawberry red tongue and red and fine scaly papular rash. A throat culture was positive for Group A beta-hemoplytic Streptococcus.

Description

red tongue with prominent papillae, generalized scarlatiniform eruption

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3/10/2004 17:43:21

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