A 5-day-old female is transferred from another hospital due to irritability and a worsening pustular rash. The mother’s pregnancy, labor and delivery was complicated by a group B strep-positive ...

Steven R. Feldman, MD, PhD; Megan H. Noe, MD, MPH, MSCE Drs Steve Feldman and Megan Noe fill in the gaps about pustular psoriasis, a relatively rare but serious condition that can be tough to diagnose ...

An 89-year-old woman was hospitalized with acute onset of fever and generalized confluent erythematous plaques and pustules (Fig 1), preceded by administration of terbinafine (24 days prior) and ...

The pathogenesis of erythema toxicum neonatorum is not well understood but may arise secondary to skin contact with meconium. Some studies have suggested that an abnormal immunologic reaction to ...

A 28-year-old man presented with multiple skin lesions and a painful swollen right ankle. He had first noticed a purulent blister on his right knee about two weeks earlier. This lasted for several ...

Do you recall a time when frontline doctors had no choice but to diagnose certain patients based purely on clinical ken? I do. Take, for example, someone sick and feverish with a maculopapular or ...

You’ve probably heard of psoriasis—the chronic inflammatory condition that can cause itchy, scaly patches on your skin. Less well-known is a rare form of the disease called pustular psoriasis, which ...