Synonym(s)
Pustular dermatoses; Pustule forming diseases; Pustuloses; Pustulosis of the skin
DefinitionThis section has been translated automatically.
Polyetiological inflammatory skin diseases characterized by follicular or non-follicular pustules (and vesicles). While the pustule represents the clinically characteristic efflorescence, the individual clinical pictures and different causes are concealed behind the individual clinical pictures.
Pustular dermatoses of the newborn occupy a special position.
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Infectious diseases
- Abscess
- Alastrim (Variola minor)
- Anthrax of the skin
- Candidiasis, intertriginous
- Demodex folliculitis
- Eczema vaccinatum
- Enterococcal granulomas of the skin
- Impetigo contagiosa
- Cryptococcosis
- Cowpox
- Lambliasis
- Lymphogranuloma venereum
- Malleus
- Melioidosis
- Paronychia, syphilitic
- Periporitis of infants
- Plague
- Smallpox
- Scabies
- Syphilide, pustular
- tinea
- Tuberculosis cutis verrucosa
- Tularemia
- Pseudomonas folliculitis
- Zoster
Psoriatic form
- Acrodermatitis continua suppurativa
- Balanitis parakeratotica circinata
- Impetigo herpetiformis
- Keratoderma blenorrhagicum (Reiter's disease)
- Psoriasis vulgaris cum pustulatione
- Psoriasis pustulosa generalisata (PGG)
- Psoriasis pustulosa palmaris et plantaris
Immunologically induced pustulosis
- Acute generalized exanthematous p ustulosis (AGEP)
- Generalized pustular figured erythema (frequently after hydrocychloroquine ingestion)
- Amicrobial intertriginous pustulosis
- Anticonvulsant hypersensitivity syndrome
- Subcorneal pustulosis (Sneddon Wilkinson)
- Pustulosis palmaris et plantaris (PPP)
- Behçet's disease
- Bowel-associated dermatosis-arthritis syndrome (bowel bypass syndrome)
- Dermatosis acute febrile neutrophilic (Sweet syndrome)
- IgA pemphigus
- Impetigo herpetiformis
- Pemphigus vegetans, Hallopeau type
- Pustuloderma, toxic
- Pustular vasculitis
- Pyoderma gangraenosum
- Pyostomatitis vegetans
Follicular (infectious and non-infectious) pustulosis
- Acne conglobata
- Acne conglobata of childhood
- Acne papulopustulosa
- Dermatosis erosive pustular of the lower leg
- Dermatitis cruris pustulosa et atrophicans (DCPA)
- Eosinophilic pustular folliculitis of childhood
- Erosive pustular dermatosis of the capillitium (erosive pustular dermatitis of the capillitium)
- Acne keloidalis nuchae
- Folliculitis gram-negative
- Folliculitis barbae candidamycetica
- Boils/carbuncles
- Superficial folliculitis (ostiofolliculitis)
- Perifolliculitis capitis abscedens et suffodiens
- Malassezia folliculitis (pityrosporum folliculitis)
- Pyoderma faciale
- Rosacea
- Miliaria
- Rash acneiform (ADR in therapy with tyrosine kinase inhibitors)
Variae
- Acrodermatitis enteropathica
- Acropustulosis infantile
- Dermatitis perioralis
- Interleukin-1 receptor antagonist deficiency syndrome (DIRA)
- Interleukin-36 receptor ant agonist deficiency syndrome (DITRA)
- Erythema necroticans migrans
- Erythema neonatorum
- Hidradenitis erkkrine neutrophile
- Hyper-IgE syndrome (Job's syndrome)
- Incontinentia pigmenti
- Langerhans cell histiocytosis (Abt-Letterer-Siwe disease type)
- Melanosis, transient neonatal p ustular (transient neonatal pustular melanosis)
- Omenn syndrome
- Parakeratosis pustulosa
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In addition to an infectious genesis, genodermatoses, inflammatory diseases of the hair follicles and sweat glands, but also immunologically induced mechanisms can be hidden behind a pimple-forming disease.
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Abscess; Abt-letterer-siwe disease; Acne conglobata; Acne conglobata infantum; Acne keloidalis nuchae; Acne papulopustulosa; Acrodermatitis continua suppurativa; Acrodermatitis enteropathica; Acropustulosis of infancy; Acute generalized exanthematous pustulosis; ... Show allDisclaimer
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