Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy: a case report.
Acute hemorrhagic edema of infancy is a cutaneous leukocytoclastic vasculitis, clinically characterized by the acute development of peripheral edema and targetoid purpuric lesions on the face and extremities. The clinical picture has a violent onset with a short benign course followed by spontaneous complete recovery. We describe a five-month-old boy with acute hemorrhagic edema, in whom the disease appeared after antibiotic treatment for a cellulitis in front of the tragus.
Can
Burçe
B
Department of Dermatology, Social Security Göztepe Training Hospital, Istanbul, Turkey.
Kavala
Mukaddes
M
Türkoğlu
Zafer
Z
Zemheri
Ebru
E
D000208:Acute Disease; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004487:Edema / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006470:Hemorrhage / Q000175:diagnosis*; D006801:Humans; D007223:Infant; D008297:Male; D018366:Vasculitis, Leukocytoclastic, Cutaneous / Q000175:diagnosis*