Zoster, Shingles - DermAtlas - Dermatology Image Atlas

Contributor

Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

zoster shingles

Body Site

penis genital

Age

6 years

Pigmentation

light

Organization

dermatomal linear

Color

Morphology

vesiculobullous (blister, pustule)

Pattern

Comments

A 6 year old boy with an undefined autoimmune disorder on chronic oral steroid therapy developed a unilateral dermatomal vesicular eruption on the right side of the penis. Immunoperoxidase stains for varicella zoster virus were positive. He was treated with oral acycloivir, and the vesicules crusted over and healed within 10 days.

Description

dermatomal clustered uniform 3 mm vesicles

Image Added

9/16/2001 17:10:06

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