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Acrofacial necrotic ulcers in an infant: An undiagnosed presentation

Acral necrotic ulcers in infancy are rare but have been described in type I interferonopathies. Herein, we present a case of an 8-year-old child who presented at the age of one month with severe ulceronecrotic lesions on the face and limbs with exacerbations following exposure to cold weather. Despi...

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Autores principales: Sarika, Georgina-Maria, Shreberk-Hassidim, Rony, Maly, Alexander, Molho-Pessach, Vered
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Frontiers Media S.A. 2022
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Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9815528/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36619501
http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2022.1069242
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author Sarika, Georgina-Maria
Shreberk-Hassidim, Rony
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description Acral necrotic ulcers in infancy are rare but have been described in type I interferonopathies. Herein, we present a case of an 8-year-old child who presented at the age of one month with severe ulceronecrotic lesions on the face and limbs with exacerbations following exposure to cold weather. Despite extensive investigation the case remains undiagnosed to this day. We hypothesize that this case represents a novel and yet unknown autoinflammatory disease.
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spelling pubmed-98155282023-01-06 Acrofacial necrotic ulcers in an infant: An undiagnosed presentation Sarika, Georgina-Maria Shreberk-Hassidim, Rony Maly, Alexander Molho-Pessach, Vered Front Pediatr Pediatrics Acral necrotic ulcers in infancy are rare but have been described in type I interferonopathies. Herein, we present a case of an 8-year-old child who presented at the age of one month with severe ulceronecrotic lesions on the face and limbs with exacerbations following exposure to cold weather. Despite extensive investigation the case remains undiagnosed to this day. We hypothesize that this case represents a novel and yet unknown autoinflammatory disease. Frontiers Media S.A. 2022-12-22 /pmc/articles/PMC9815528/ /pubmed/36619501 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2022.1069242 Text en © 2022 Sarika, Shreberk-Hassidim, Maly and Molho-Pessach. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/This is an open-access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License (CC BY) (https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/) . The use, distribution or reproduction in other forums is permitted, provided the original author(s) and the copyright owner(s) are credited and that the original publication in this journal is cited, in accordance with accepted academic practice. No use, distribution or reproduction is permitted which does not comply with these terms.
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Sarika, Georgina-Maria
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Acrofacial necrotic ulcers in an infant: An undiagnosed presentation
title Acrofacial necrotic ulcers in an infant: An undiagnosed presentation
title_full Acrofacial necrotic ulcers in an infant: An undiagnosed presentation
title_fullStr Acrofacial necrotic ulcers in an infant: An undiagnosed presentation
title_full_unstemmed Acrofacial necrotic ulcers in an infant: An undiagnosed presentation
title_short Acrofacial necrotic ulcers in an infant: An undiagnosed presentation
title_sort acrofacial necrotic ulcers in an infant: an undiagnosed presentation
topic Pediatrics
url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9815528/
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