In 1872, the Hungarian born dermatologist Moriz Kaposi that was practicing in Vienna first described a rare endemic disease that bears his name, among elderly persons of Central European or Mediterranean origin named "idiopathic multiple pigmented sarcoma of the skin". Ten years later the Italian dermatologist Tommaso de Amicis confirms Kaposi's findings. For more than a century the disease was...

• Un diagnostic précoce de l’eczéma herpeticum et une thérapie antivirale systémique immédiate peuvent minimiser les complications graves et mortelles. Eczema herpeticum, also known as a form of Kaposi varicelliform eruption caused by viral infection, usually with the herpes simplex virus (HSV), is an extensive cutaneous vesicular eruption that arises from pre-existing skin disease, usually ato...

<p>Kaposi`s varicelliform eruption (KVE) is a disseminated cutaneous infection with herpesvirus type 1 or 2, vaccinia virus, coxsackievirus A16 in patient another underlying dermatosis. When 2 the pathogenic term ‘‘eczema herpeticum’’ (EH) used, independent of dermatologic diagnosis that preceded eruption. Presenting case generalised pustular psoriasis who while on immunosuppressant thera...

Darier’s disease results from abnormal keratinization of skin and is characterized by numerous keratotic papules that preferentially involve seborrheic areas. Kaposi’s varicelliform eruption (KVE) occurs by viral infections such as herpes simplex virus (HSV) in some inflammatory skin disorders like Darier’s disease. Herein, we describe a 68-year-old man, a known case of Darier’s disease, who pr...

OBJECTIVES This case report is to present a complete recovery from Kaposi's varicelliform eruption (KVE) that occurred in a patient with atopic dermatitis by applying Korean Medicine therapies. METHODS Hwangyeonhaedoktang pharmacopuncture (HP), 0.3 mL, and 25% bee venom pharmacopuncture (BVP), 0.1 mL, were injected, 0.2 mL each, at both BL13 acupoints once a day in the morning. Acupuncture wa...