Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis is a rare drug-induced eruption that characterized by sterile non-follicular pustules arising on an often edematous diffuse erythematous background. Generalized pustular psoriasis acute and severe clinical form of presenting as with base. Differentiating both diseases challenging because their histopathological similarities. A 62-year-old woman present...

YM is the first son of Tunisian consanguineous parents who developed, at 2 weeks of life, an erythematous and scaly eruption, with subsequent rapid evolution toward generalized pustular psoriasis. Afterward, cutaneous flares of diffuse erythematous rash and pustules involving the whole body appeared, with a once weekly periodicity. Intense irritability was present during flares without fever. M...

BACKGROUND Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) is a rare severe pustular reaction pattern with a typical clinical picture. OBJECTIVES To characterize the histopathological features of AGEP in a large series of cases with a validated diagnosis. METHODS; A multinational retrospective histopathological study was conducted. It included 102 hospitalized patients (recruited within the...

UNLABELLED Subcorneal pustular dermatosis (SPD) represents a chronic, relapsing sterile pustular eruption, involving the trunk and flexoral proximal extremities. A 54-year-old female presented with recurrent, flaccid pustules measuring several millimeters in diameter, on normal and mildly erythematous skin of the groin and submammary areas. Biopsies for hematoxylin and eosin (H&E) examination, ...

Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP) is a rare cutaneous rash characterized by widespread sterile nonfollicular pustules. Cefepime is a fourth generation cephalosporin, used to treat severe infections. A 67-year-old man was admitted with acute gastroenterocolitis. On the seventh day, the patient developed a nosocomial pneumonia and cefepime was initiated. On the fourth day of cepha...

The association between primary biliary cirrhosis (PBC) and cutaneous vasculitides is well recognized. Pustular skin lesions though, have been described in association with hepatobiliary diseases other than PBC. Once the more common infective pustular rashes have been excluded, the differential diagnoses for a pustular skin rash are acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis (AGEP), Sweet's Syn...

Generalized pustular psoriasis is a potentially life-threatening neutrophilic skin disease characterized by recurrent flares of widespread erythema and eruption sterile pustules. In the Effisayil™ 1 study (NCT03782792), 53 patients with generalized flare were treated placebo or spesolimab, humanized anti-interleukin-36 receptor monoclonal antibody, first targeted treatment to be studied in rand...