title: Acute generalized erythematous pustulosis occurring with Hailey-Hailey disease.
abstract: A 70-year-old woman urgently presented with severe eruptive skin dermatitis associated with fever and malaise 7 days after taking clindamycin for an unknown skin eruption. She had a 40-year-long history of well-controlled Hailey-Hailey disease. Physical examination revealed erythrodermic skin changes covering more than 80% of the patient's body surface, with hundreds of nonfollicular pustules. Many of the pustules fused into large bullae, involving the intertriginous as well as the extensor areas, sparing the mucosa. Her body temperature was 103 degrees F. Laboratory workup was significant for neutrophilia with a white cell count > 10,000/mm3.
authors.affiliation: Department of Pathology, University of Massachusetts School of Medicine, Worcester, MA 01605, USA. denga@uhmmc.org
authors.forename: April
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Deng
authors.forename: Mark
authors.initials: M
authors.lastname: Lowitt
mesh_terms: D056150:Acute Generalized Exanthematous Pustulosis / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology; D000368:Aged; D005260:Female; D006801:Humans; D016506:Pemphigus, Benign Familial / Q000150:complications* / Q000473:pathology