Erythema dyschromicum perstans in a child following an enteroviral meningitis

A healthy 6-year-old boy presented with an erythematous macular exanthema, meningeal signs and fever, initially diagnosed with probable bacterial meningitis and treated with antibiotic and anti-inflammatory drugs. Enteroviral meningitis was confirmed, but the skin lesions continued to evolve and the...

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Autores principales: de Melo, Cláudia Raquel Ferrão, de Sá, Mário Correia, Carvalho, Sónia
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2017
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Communication
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5312198/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28225976
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.201745144
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description A healthy 6-year-old boy presented with an erythematous macular exanthema, meningeal signs and fever, initially diagnosed with probable bacterial meningitis and treated with antibiotic and anti-inflammatory drugs. Enteroviral meningitis was confirmed, but the skin lesions continued to evolve and the patient was ultimately diagnosed with erythema dyschromicum perstans. The boy was followed during three years until the spontaneous resolution of the dermatosis.
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spelling pubmed-53121982017-02-23 Erythema dyschromicum perstans in a child following an enteroviral meningitis de Melo, Cláudia Raquel Ferrão de Sá, Mário Correia Carvalho, Sónia An Bras Dermatol Communication A healthy 6-year-old boy presented with an erythematous macular exanthema, meningeal signs and fever, initially diagnosed with probable bacterial meningitis and treated with antibiotic and anti-inflammatory drugs. Enteroviral meningitis was confirmed, but the skin lesions continued to evolve and the patient was ultimately diagnosed with erythema dyschromicum perstans. The boy was followed during three years until the spontaneous resolution of the dermatosis. Sociedade Brasileira de Dermatologia 2017 /pmc/articles/PMC5312198/ /pubmed/28225976 http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.201745144 Text en ©2017 by Anais Brasileiros de Dermatologia http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/ This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium provided the original work is properly cited.
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Erythema dyschromicum perstans in a child following an enteroviral meningitis
title Erythema dyschromicum perstans in a child following an enteroviral meningitis
title_full Erythema dyschromicum perstans in a child following an enteroviral meningitis
title_fullStr Erythema dyschromicum perstans in a child following an enteroviral meningitis
title_full_unstemmed Erythema dyschromicum perstans in a child following an enteroviral meningitis
title_short Erythema dyschromicum perstans in a child following an enteroviral meningitis
title_sort erythema dyschromicum perstans in a child following an enteroviral meningitis
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC5312198/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/28225976
http://dx.doi.org/10.1590/abd1806-4841.201745144
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