A 3-month-old with a blistering plaque.
Cutaneous Mastocytosis is not an uncommon condition in the pediatric setting. The eruption can have multiple clinical presentations. We present a case of a 3-month-old child with a solitary mastocytoma who was initially diagnosed with recurrent bullous impetigo. Solitary mastocytoma can present as a blister. Although bullous impetigo is a common diagnosis in children and it would be tempting to make that diagnosis in the presence of a positive skin swab culture, clinicians always have to be mindful of secondary impetiginization of another primary skin disease process.
Alsharqi
Ali
A
The Royal Liverpool and Broadgreen University Hospitals NHS Trust.
Parslew
Richard
R
Shukla
Rajeev
R
D001768:Blister / Q000209:etiology; D003937:Diagnosis, Differential; D004890:Erythema / Q000209:etiology; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D007169:Impetigo / Q000209:etiology; D007223:Infant; D007866:Leg / Q000473:pathology; D054705:Mastocytoma, Skin / Q000175:diagnosis* / Q000188:drug therapy / Q000473:pathology