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Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

subcorneal pustular dermatosis

Body Site

total body abdomen

Age

13 years

Pigmentation

medium

Organization

discrete confluent

Color

brown red

Morphology

vesiculobullous (blister, pustule)

Pattern

generalized, disseminated central (centrifugal - trunk predominant)

Comments

This healthy 13-year-old girl developed a generalized minimally itchy bullous eruption with the greatest concentration of lesions on the trunk and sparing of the face a month ago. Many of the lesions had central crusts and erosions and peripheral flaccid bullae. A skin biopsy revealed subcorneal vesicles and pustules, and direct and indirect immunofluorescence were negative. Two weeks later many of the larger bullae had resolved leaving discrete and confluent hyperpigmented macules and patches with darker edges and new 2-3 mm vesicles and pustules.

Description

generalized discrete and confluent hyperpigmented macules and patches with darker edges and scattered 2-4 mm vesicles and pustules and crusts particularly at the borders

Categories

vesiculobullous eruptions

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6/20/2009 18:10:11

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