Sir, In 1968, Baker & Ryan. reported 5 patients with an exanthematic subtype of generalized pustular psoriasis (GPP) (1). The patients had developed a widespread and short-lived sterile pustular eruption either following an infection or for no apparent reason. They had no previous history of psoriasis. In 1980, Beylot et al. (2) introduced the term acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AG...

Sir, Subcorneal pustular dermatosis (SPD) is an uncommon, chronic/recurrent, pustular eruption characterized by subcorneal sterile pustules involving mainly the abdomen and the large folds. Originally described in 1956 by Sneddon & Wilkinson (1), the condition can be ascribed to the complex group of neutrophilic dermatoses (2). The pathophysiology underlying SPD is presently unknown, but the di...

Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis is a skin reaction characterized by an acute onset, fever, and a cutaneous eruption with non-follicular sterile pustules on edematous erythema. It mimics many of the features of pustular psoriasis but is differentiated by its characteristic clinical course and history. The cause is usually ingested drugs. We report a case of acute generalized exanthema...

Background Recent data show that almost 75% of HIV patients have muco-cutaneous diseases, the proportion of patients with dermatoses being inversely proportional to the CD4 + and directly proportional to the stage of disease. Papulo-pustular eruption is the most common pruritic dermatosis in patients with HIV infection, followed by seborrheic dermatitis, psoriasis, molluscum contagiosum and dru...

Amicrobial pustulosis is a rare clinical entity characterized by a relapsing pustular eruption, primarily involving the skin folds. We describe a case of amicrobial pustulosis associated with autoimmune diseases (APAD). The patient suffered from IgA nephropathy and Sjögren's syndrome. Skin symptoms were alleviated dramatically after corticosteroid pulse therapy and tonsillectomy.

© 2012 The Authors. doi: 10.2340/00015555-1167 Journal Compilation © 2012 Acta Dermato-Venereologica. ISSN 0001-5555 Penile pyoderma gangrenosum (PPG) is an uncommon, non-infectious and idiopathic skin disease. Therapeutic options include topical or systemic corticosteroids or other systemically administered immunomodulatory drugs (1). We described here an eruption of pustular PPG, which was tr...

Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis is a rare severe pustular cutaneous adverse reaction characterized by a rapid clinical course with typical histological findings. It is accompanied by fever and acute eruption of non-follicular pustules overlying erythrodermic skin. The causative agents are most frequently antibacterial drugs. We present a patient with acute generalized exanthematous p...