Toxic pustuloderma: a self-limiting eruption.
Three patients are described who developed numerous pinhead sized pustules within areas of a widespread toxic erythema. The eruption was precipitated by food poisoning in one patient, a suspected, but blood-culture-negative septicaemia in another and in the third patient, by a cephalosporin. This self-limiting syndrome consists of fever, a pustular and erythematous eruption, a neutrophil leucocytosis, subcorneal and spongiform pustules but without a history of psoriasis. We believe that this entity of toxic pustuloderma represents a severe form of toxic erythema.
Rustin
M H
MH
Department of Dermatology, University College and Middlesex School of Medicine, Middlesex Hospital, London, U.K.
Robinson
T W
TW
Dowd
P M
PM
D000328:Adult; D002511:Cephalosporins / Q000009:adverse effects*; D003875:Drug Eruptions / Q000209:etiology; D004890:Erythema / Q000209:etiology / Q000473:pathology; D005260:Female; D005517:Foodborne Diseases / Q000150:complications*; D006801:Humans; D008297:Male; D008875:Middle Aged; D018805:Sepsis / Q000150:complications*; D012872:Skin Diseases, Vesiculobullous / Q000209:etiology* / Q000473:pathology
D002511:Cephalosporins