Transient neonatal pustular melanosis.
A black male infant had congenital lesions that consisted of pigmented macules, many of which had a peripheral collarette of scale, and vesicopustules. The appearance of this patient fit the clinical syndrome of transient neonatal pustular melanosis, a newly described vesicopustular disease of the newborn. Differential diagnosis in this patient included the following conditions: erythema toxicum neonatorum, staphylococcal pyoderma, and herpes simplex.
D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004890:Erythema / Q000175:diagnosis; D006561:Herpes Simplex / Q000175:diagnosis; D006801:Humans; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D007232:Infant, Newborn, Diseases / Q000175:diagnosis; D008297:Male; D008548:Melanosis / Q000151:congenital* / Q000175:diagnosis; D011711:Pyoderma / Q000175:diagnosis; D013203:Staphylococcal Infections / Q000175:diagnosis