What Is Your Diagnosis? The diagnosis: Kaposi varicelliform eruption (eczema herpeticum)

Cutis

Volumn 90, Issue 1, 2012, Pages

  Breithaupt, Andrew D ^a   Di Nardo, Anna ^b   Kempiak, Stephan J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^c KAISER PERMANENTE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACICLOVIR; ANTIVIRUS AGENT;

ADULT; ARTICLE; CASE REPORT; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; HUMAN; KAPOSI VARICELLIFORM ERUPTION; MALE; PATHOLOGY;

ACYCLOVIR; ANTIVIRAL AGENTS; DIAGNOSIS, DIFFERENTIAL; HUMANS; KAPOSI VARICELLIFORM ERUPTION; MALE; YOUNG ADULT;

EID: 84866439146     PISSN: 00114162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Note

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