Acute haemorrhagic oedema of infancy with bullae and koebnerisation
A 5-month-old Malay boy presented with purpuric papules and plaques on the face and extremities accompanied by fever, coryzal symptoms and bilateral lower limb oedema. There were also bullous linear purpuric lesions on the right upper limb. Blood and culture tests were normal. Histopathological t...
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| author | Norashikin Shamsudin Sazlyna Mohd Sazlly Lim |
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| description | A 5-month-old Malay boy presented with purpuric papules and plaques on the face and extremities
accompanied by fever, coryzal symptoms and bilateral lower limb oedema. There were also
bullous linear purpuric lesions on the right upper limb. Blood and culture tests were normal.
Histopathological tests showed leucocytoclastic vasculitis, confirming the diagnosis of acute
haemorrhagic oedema of infancy. The patient achieved complete recovery after 2 weeks with no
recurrence. |
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| spelling | doaj.art-a9939a4ec97b4828bb50cb09c9ee6a8d2022-12-22T03:22:41ZengAcademy of Family Physicians of MalaysiaMalaysian Family Physician1985-22742014-08-01925557Acute haemorrhagic oedema of infancy with bullae and koebnerisationNorashikin Shamsudin0Sazlyna Mohd Sazlly Lim1Universiti Putra MalaysiaUniversiti Putra MalaysiaA 5-month-old Malay boy presented with purpuric papules and plaques on the face and extremities accompanied by fever, coryzal symptoms and bilateral lower limb oedema. There were also bullous linear purpuric lesions on the right upper limb. Blood and culture tests were normal. Histopathological tests showed leucocytoclastic vasculitis, confirming the diagnosis of acute haemorrhagic oedema of infancy. The patient achieved complete recovery after 2 weeks with no recurrence.http://e-mfp.org/pdf/2014v9n2/acute-haemorrhagic.pdfAcute haemorrhagic oedema of infancypurpuraleukocytoclastic vasculitis |
| spellingShingle | Norashikin Shamsudin Sazlyna Mohd Sazlly Lim Acute haemorrhagic oedema of infancy with bullae and koebnerisation Malaysian Family Physician Acute haemorrhagic oedema of infancy purpura leukocytoclastic vasculitis |
| title | Acute haemorrhagic oedema of infancy with bullae and koebnerisation |
| title_full | Acute haemorrhagic oedema of infancy with bullae and koebnerisation |
| title_fullStr | Acute haemorrhagic oedema of infancy with bullae and koebnerisation |
| title_full_unstemmed | Acute haemorrhagic oedema of infancy with bullae and koebnerisation |
| title_short | Acute haemorrhagic oedema of infancy with bullae and koebnerisation |
| title_sort | acute haemorrhagic oedema of infancy with bullae and koebnerisation |
| topic | Acute haemorrhagic oedema of infancy purpura leukocytoclastic vasculitis |
| url | http://e-mfp.org/pdf/2014v9n2/acute-haemorrhagic.pdf |
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