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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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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 Maly, Alexander Molho-Pessach, Vered |
author_facet | Sarika, Georgina-Maria Shreberk-Hassidim, Rony Maly, Alexander Molho-Pessach, Vered |
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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. |
spellingShingle | Pediatrics Sarika, Georgina-Maria Shreberk-Hassidim, Rony Maly, Alexander Molho-Pessach, Vered 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/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36619501 http://dx.doi.org/10.3389/fped.2022.1069242 |
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