[Diagnostic image (138). A girl with little bumps. Hand-foot-mouth disease].
A 3-year-and-7-month-old girl with Down's syndrome had papules and vesicles on hands, feet and buttocks, and vesicular lesions in the oral cavity. A positive culture of enterovirus in vesicular fluid confirmed the clinical diagnosis 'hand-foot-mouth disease'.
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Academisch Medisch Centrum/Universiteit van Amsterdam, locatie Emma Kinderziekenhuis, afd. Kindergeneeskunde, Meibergdreef 9, 1105 AZ Amsterdam. d.h.winterberg@amc.uva.nl
D002675:Child, Preschool; D004770:Enterovirus / Q000302:isolation & purification; D005260:Female; D006232:Hand, Foot and Mouth Disease / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000473:pathology; D006801:Humans; D009055:Mouth / Q000473:pathology