A 6-year-old child was referred for a suspected viral exanthem associated with URTI. On examination the trunk showed a maculopapular rash while the sole showed multiple black “spots” which were present for 7 days. A diagnosis of Talon noir was confirmed by paring the lesion with a No 15 blade which removed the superficial layer of the stratum corneum, and revealed puncta of black pigment of ext...

Human enterovirus type B (56 serotypes): These include coxsackie A virus type 9; coxsackie B virus types 1-6; echovirus types 1-7, 9, 11-21, 24-27, and 29-33; and enterovirus type 69. The 13 new serotypes reported in 2007 (enterovirus types 79-88, 97, 100, and 101) are probably members of human enterovirus type B. 2 Human enterovirus type C (16 serotypes) The most well known are coxsackie A virus

Eruptive pseudoangiomatosis (EPA) is a rare, benign, spontaneously regressing childhood exanthem. The term was recently coined by Prose et al.1 to describe a dermatosis characterized by the sudden onset of a few to several bright red angioma-like papules with a different histopathology from the true angiomas. We describe three patients with the typical lesions of EPA but with some peculiar feat...

Cutaneous manifestation of COVID 19 in children has not yet been reviewed systematically. Hence, this review gives the clinicians a future direction to be vigilant for skin presentations during pandemics. The Pubmed database used literature search with keywords 19, children, and different combinations. Articles published English cases age one month 18 years were eligible. outcome included varie...

A 6-year-old boy presented with sudden onset of progressive, asymptomatic crops of well-demarcated, symmetrical, hypomelanotic macules ranging in size from 0.1 to 0.5 cm [Figures 1-3]. The eruption appeared in crops and began on the forearms and then spread to legs and thighs and face over a period of 1 week. Most lesions were non-scaly and discrete. Some closely situated macules showed conflue...

INTRODUCTION We report 3 cases of dapsone hypersensitivity syndrome due to anti-malarial chemoprophylactic treatment with maloprim, in military servicemen, presenting like a viral exanthem. CLINICAL PICTURE Three male military recruits presented with fever and rash, 6 to 8 weeks after commencing on weekly doses of maloprim. TREATMENT A course of topical and systemic corticosteroids and oral...

The severe acute respiratory syndrome coronavirus two (SARS-CoV-2), which causes the 2019 disease (COVID-19), has infected patients worldwide. Physicians have increasingly identified cutaneous findings as a significant clinical manifestation of COVID-19. In this review, we describe presentation, onset, duration, associated symptoms, treatment, and outcome manifestations thus far reported to be ...

Cutaneous reactions to mercury can manifest themselves in different forms. Apart from contact dermatitis, flare-up reactions, disseminated exanthem as well as skin symptoms in previously unaffected skin are known. Regarding systemic allergen application, 2 separate clinical patterns, namely acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) and symmetric flexural exanthem 'baboon syndrome' have ...