Day: August 6, 2018

The exfoliative erythroderma syndrome (EES) is a serious, at times life-threatening reaction pattern of the skin characterized by generalized and uniform redness and scaling involving practically the entire skin and

An exanthematous drug reaction (eruption) is an adverse hypersensitivity reaction to an ingested or parenterally administered drug characterized by a cutaneous eruption that mimics a measles-like viral exanthem; systemic involvement

This hereditary metabolic disorder of porphyrin metabolism is unique among the porphyrias in that porphyrins or porphyrin precursors are not excreted in the urine. Also, erythropoietic protoporphyria (EPP) is characterized

Erythrasma (Greek: “red spot”) is a chronic bacterial infection caused by Corynebacterium minutissimum affecting the intertriginous areas of the toes, groins, and axillae, which mimics epidermal dermatophyte infections. Causes of

Erythema (air-uh-THEE-ma) infectiosum (in-fek-tee-OH-sum), also called Fifth disease, is an infection that mostly occurs in children. Erythema infectiosum (EI) is a childhood exanthem occurring with primary parvovirus B19 infection, characterized

Erysipelas and cellulitis are acute, spreading infections of dermal and subcutaneous tissues, characterized by a red, hot, tender area of skin, often at the site of bacterial entry, caused most

There are several variants of eosinophilic folliculitis, which is also known as ‘eosinophilic pustular folliculitis’ or ‘Ofuji disease’. The name is due to skin biopsy finding of eosinophils (a type