Atypical presentation of painful vesicles on the hands and feet in an immunocompromised adult

Journal of Clinical Virology

Volumn 78, Issue , 2016, Pages 129-131

  Christoffers, Wietske A ^a   Riezebos Brilman, Annelies ^a   Kardaun, Sylvia H ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY MEDICAL CENTER GRONINGEN   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AZATHIOPRINE; BETAMETHASONE DIPROPIONATE PLUS CALCIPOTRIOL; C REACTIVE PROTEIN; COTRIMOXAZOLE; CYCLOPHOSPHAMIDE; HYDROCHLOROTHIAZIDE; MYCOPHENOLATE MOFETIL; OMEPRAZOLE; VIRUS RNA;

ADULT; ADVERSE DRUG REACTION; CASE REPORT; CAUCASIAN; COUGHING; DESQUAMATION; DIFFERENTIAL DIAGNOSIS; DISEASE DURATION; ENTEROVIRUS; ERYTHEMA; ERYTHEMA MULTIFORME; FEVER; HAND ECZEMA; HAND FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HERPANGINA; HERPES LABIALIS; HERPES SIMPLEX; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 1; HERPES SIMPLEX VIRUS 2; HERPES ZOSTER; HISTOPATHOLOGY; HUMAN; HYPERPLASIA; HYPERTENSION; IMMUNOCOMPROMIZED PATIENT; LYMPHOCYTOPENIA; MALAISE; MALE; MEDICAL HISTORY; NONHUMAN; NOTE; PAPULOVESICULAR RASH; PARAKERATOSIS; PLASMA CELL; PRIORITY JOURNAL; PSORIASIS VULGARIS; REAL TIME POLYMERASE CHAIN REACTION; RELAPSE; SKIN EDEMA; SWIMMING POOL; THROAT CULTURE; VARICELLA ZOSTER VIRUS; VASCULITIS; WEGENER GRANULOMATOSIS; FOOT; HAND; HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED PATIENT; PATHOLOGY; RASH;

ADULT; EXANTHEMA; FOOT; HAND; HAND, FOOT AND MOUTH DISEASE; HUMANS; IMMUNOCOMPROMISED HOST; MALE;

EID: 84962094480     PISSN: 13866532     EISSN: 18735967     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jcv.2015.11.016     Document Type: Note

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