PUSTULOSIS ACUTA GENERALISATA IS A POSTSTREPTOCOCCAL DISEASE AND IS DISTINCT FROM ACUTE GENERALIZED EXANTHEMATOUS PUSTULOSIS

Generalized pustular eruptions with fever present a diagnostic and the rapeutic problem. Based on a case of pustulosis acuta generalisata and a review of the literature, this entity can be regarded as an exclusi vely post-streptococcal disorder with an elevated antistreptolysin tit re. It has a distinct clinical presentation of isolated pustules on no rmal skin, predominantly in an acral location. We propose criteria for the clear separation of this disease from acute generalized exanthema tous pustulosis and from pustular psoriasis.