[Juvenile atrophying erythema multiforme].
This is a case report of an Atrophic Juvenile Erythema Multiform that has occurred in a ten year old white girl. She has been having symptoms since age three, presenting severe flares of lesions that looked like multiform erythema. When the lesions healed a loose scar was left involving the whole skin. Some of the histological and pathogenic mechanisms of the disease are discussed.
D001284:Atrophy; D002648:Child; D002908:Chronic Disease; D003483:Cutis Laxa / Q000209:etiology; D004892:Erythema Multiforme / Q000150:complications / Q000235:genetics / Q000473:pathology*; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology*
Eritema multiforme infantil atrofiante.