KAPOSIS VARICELLIFORM ERUPTION IN A PATIENT WITH HEALING 2ND DEGREE BURNS

Authors
BARTRALOT R GARCIAPATOS V RODRIGUEZCANO L CASTELLS A
Citation
R. Bartralot et al., KAPOSIS VARICELLIFORM ERUPTION IN A PATIENT WITH HEALING 2ND DEGREE BURNS, Clinical and experimental dermatology, 21(2), 1996, pp. 127-130
Citations number
15
Categorie Soggetti
Dermatology & Venereal Diseases
Journal title
Clinical and experimental dermatology → ACNP
ISSN journal
03076938
Volume
21
Issue
2
Year of publication
1996
Pages
127 - 130
Database
ISI
SICI code
0307-6938(1996)21:2<127:KVEIAP>2.0.ZU;2-H
Abstract
A 15-year-old boy with Kaposi's varicelliform eruption complicating he aling second degree burns is reported. Clinically, umbilicated vesicle s and pustules evolving to extensive erosions appeared over previously burned areas, sparing normal skin. Rapid diagnosis was made on the ba sis of the presence of multinucleate giant cells in a Tzanck smear. Th erapy with intravenous acyclovir was followed by complete epithelializ ation without scarring. Previous cases of Kaposi's varicelliform erupt ion in burned patients are reviewed.