title: Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome mimicking acute graft-vs-host disease in a bone marrow transplant recipient.
abstract: A 33-year-old man with mild acute graft-vs-host disease after an allogeneic bone marrow transplant for chronic myelogenous leukemia developed a necrolytic rash 90 days after transplant. A diagnosis of staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome was made when a skin biopsy specimen revealed a split in the granular layer and phage group 2, type 71 Staphylococcus aureus was cultured from the blood.
authors.affiliation: Department of Dermatology, New York Medical College, Valhalla 10595.
authors.forename: N S
authors.initials: NS
authors.lastname: Goldberg
authors.forename: T
authors.initials: T
authors.lastname: Ahmed
authors.forename: B
authors.initials: B
authors.lastname: Robinson
authors.forename: J
authors.initials: J
authors.lastname: Ascensao
authors.forename: H
authors.initials: H
authors.lastname: Horowitz
mesh_terms: D000208:Acute Disease; D000328:Adult; D000367:Age Factors; D016026:Bone Marrow Transplantation; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D006086:Graft vs Host Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D006801:Humans; D007108:Immune Tolerance; D015464:Leukemia, Myelogenous, Chronic, BCR-ABL Positive / Q000601:surgery; D008297:Male; D008776:Methylprednisolone Hemisuccinate / Q000627:therapeutic use; D011183:Postoperative Complications / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D013206:Staphylococcal Scalded Skin Syndrome / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy; D013207:Staphylococcal Skin Infections / Q000175:diagnosis*; D013211:Staphylococcus aureus / Q000302:isolation & purification
chemical_list: D008776:Methylprednisolone Hemisuccinate