Mycoplasma Pneumoniae with Atypical Stevens-Johnson Syndrome: A Diagnostic Challenge

The Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) classically involves a targetoid skin rash and the association of the oral mucosa, genitals, and conjunctivae. Recently, there have been several documentations of an incomplete presentation of this syndrome, without the typical rash, usually associated with the myc...

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Autores principales: Yachoui, Ralph, Kolasinski, Sharon L., Feinstein, David E.
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3556399/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23365770
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/457161
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description The Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) classically involves a targetoid skin rash and the association of the oral mucosa, genitals, and conjunctivae. Recently, there have been several documentations of an incomplete presentation of this syndrome, without the typical rash, usually associated with the mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. Our case illustrates that this important clinical diagnosis should not be missed due to its atypical presentation.
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spelling pubmed-35563992013-01-30 Mycoplasma Pneumoniae with Atypical Stevens-Johnson Syndrome: A Diagnostic Challenge Yachoui, Ralph Kolasinski, Sharon L. Feinstein, David E. Case Rep Infect Dis Case Report The Stevens-Johnson syndrome (SJS) classically involves a targetoid skin rash and the association of the oral mucosa, genitals, and conjunctivae. Recently, there have been several documentations of an incomplete presentation of this syndrome, without the typical rash, usually associated with the mycoplasma pneumoniae infection. Our case illustrates that this important clinical diagnosis should not be missed due to its atypical presentation. Hindawi Publishing Corporation 2013 2013-01-08 /pmc/articles/PMC3556399/ /pubmed/23365770 http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/457161 Text en Copyright © 2013 Ralph Yachoui et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/ This is an open access article distributed under the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Mycoplasma Pneumoniae with Atypical Stevens-Johnson Syndrome: A Diagnostic Challenge
title Mycoplasma Pneumoniae with Atypical Stevens-Johnson Syndrome: A Diagnostic Challenge
title_full Mycoplasma Pneumoniae with Atypical Stevens-Johnson Syndrome: A Diagnostic Challenge
title_fullStr Mycoplasma Pneumoniae with Atypical Stevens-Johnson Syndrome: A Diagnostic Challenge
title_full_unstemmed Mycoplasma Pneumoniae with Atypical Stevens-Johnson Syndrome: A Diagnostic Challenge
title_short Mycoplasma Pneumoniae with Atypical Stevens-Johnson Syndrome: A Diagnostic Challenge
title_sort mycoplasma pneumoniae with atypical stevens-johnson syndrome: a diagnostic challenge
topic Case Report
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC3556399/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/23365770
http://dx.doi.org/10.1155/2013/457161
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