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A6-year-old girl presented to our outpatient department with complaint of a painful rash on her left lower extremity for the past 4 days. The rash had started as vesicles and blisters on her left buttock. Over the next few days, new painful lesions erupted on her left thigh, leg, ankle, and foot. The child was febrile (a temperature of 100 ̊F) and irritable, but otherwise well and alert. Her bod...

BACKGROUND Herpes zoster is a common viral infection of skin caused by reactivation of varicella zoster virus infection from the spinal ganglia. The clinico-epidemiological patterns of this disease in an Indian setting required to be studied. METHODS A cross sectional study was conducted on all consecutive cases of herpes zoster reporting to the Dermatology Outpatient Department at a Tertiary...

A 9-year-old boy presented with itching and bulla formation since the last 3 years. The lesions commenced over the abdomen, scalp and then became generalized. Past perinatal and drug history were uneventful. On examination, tense bullae (0.5 cm to 3.5 cm in diameter) were present all over the body (Fig. 1). Bullae arranged in an annular pattern were seen in perineal region (string of pearl’s si...

Mr. M underwent renal transplant with mother as donor in 2007. He was started on Cyclosporin, Mycophenolate mofetil and steroids. One year post-transplant he presented with fever and generalized vesicular rash .The graft function was normal. He did not have any other systemic features. He gave a history of similar illness in his village. He did not suffer from chicken pox in his childhood. He d...

© 2017 Indian Dermatology Online Journal | Published by Wolters Kluwer Medknow A 48‐year‐old female presented with 15‐days‐duration of erythroderma after taking phenytoin. She had erosions covered with thick yellow crusts around the oral cavity, started 12 days after erythroderma. [Figure 1]. Systemic examination and blood investigations were within normal limits. The patient was treated for er...

A one-month-old female baby had been noted to have multiple vesicles and pustules over the head, face, trunk and four extremities since she was one-week-old. Under the impression of disseminated herpes virus infection, intravenous acyclovir was given after admission. Serum herpes simplex virus and varicella zoster virus enzyme-linked immunosorbent assay test and virus culture were all fruitless...

Skin involvement may occur in patients with Wegener's granulomatosis (polyangiitis with granulomatosis; WG) and is more frequent in the generalised form. However, when a patient with vasculitis develops digital ulceration, in addition to disease activation, other pathologies should be considered. One of them may be the herpetic whitlow mimicking paronychia. Here, we present a patient who develo...

Eczema herpeticum can clinically resemble smallpox. On the basis of the algorithm for rapid evaluation of patients with an acute generalized vesiculopustular rash illness, our patient met criteria for high risk for smallpox. The Tzanck preparation was critical for rapid diagnosis of herpetic infection and exclusion of smallpox.