All that is vesicular is not herpes: incontinentia pigmenti masquerading as herpes simplex virus in a newborn.
Incontinentia pigmenti is a multisystem genodermatosis characterized by cutaneous, neurologic, ophthalmologic, and dental abnormalities. The skin lesions associated with the disease progress through 4 stages, the first being erythematous vesicles linearly distributed along the lines of Blaschko. We report a case of an infant who had incontinentia pigmenti and presented with 2 crops of vesicles and was initially thought to have herpes simplex virus.
College of Medicine, University of Illinois, Rockford, Illinois, USA.
Morayo
M
Faloyin
Jacob
J
Levitt
Eric
E
Bercowitz
Daniel
D
Carrasco
Jianyou
J
Tan
D001706:Biopsy; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D005260:Female; D006561:Herpes Simplex / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007184:Incontinentia Pigmenti / Q000175:diagnosis*; D007231:Infant, Newborn; D012867:Skin / Q000473:pathology