Zoster generalisatus (with drug-induced immunosuppression): For 5 days increasing redness and swelling of the skin with stabbing, shooting pain. extensive erythema, blisters, scaly crusts and swelling. > 25 blisters beyond the segmental infestation.
Pemphigus vulgaris: multiple, chronic, since 3 years intermittent formation of large, easily injured, flaccid, 0.2-3.0 cm large, red blisters, which have united here to form larger, blister lakes.
Dermatitis medusica: Acute, linear, itchy and burning (also painful) plaque, as well as disseminated, papules and vesicles, appearing on the thigh of a 32-year-old woman about 6 hours after contact with a fire jellyfish (Baltic Sea); the stripe pattern is evidence of exogenous triggering.
Toxic epidermal necrolysis. detailed picture: The 67-year-old female patient developed multiple, acute, disseminated, sharply demarcated, partly confluent, soft, skin-coloured blisters on a flat erythema on the entire integument within a few days. In case of persistent fever, antibiotic therapy was initiated.
Erythema multiforme: suddenly occurring, itchy, disseminated exanthema with cocard-like plaques, which has been present for a few days; the skin lesions appeared shortly after starting antibiotic therapy for urinary tract infection.
Dermatitis herpetiformis: chronically recurrent course of the disease. disseminated, burning, itchy, urticarial papules, papulo-vesicles and erosions. lesions are aggregated to larger plaques (here circled). p. detail images.
Pemphigoid, bullous. not quite fresh episode in a 65-year-old patient with known bullous pemphigoid. reasons for the episode activity unclear (therapy errors?). maximum exacerbated clinical picture with multiple, 0.5-10 cm large, red itchy plaques and different sized marginal blisters.
Stevens-Johnson syndrome: Acutely occurring vesicular exanthema with characteristic, bull's-eye erythema, plaques and blisters as well as extensive, painful erosions of red lips, lip mucosa, tongue and gingiva in an 18-year-old woman. Clear general feeling of illness.
Varicella: generalized exanthema (aspects of erythema multiforme) with juxtaposition of larger and smaller papules, vesicles, plaques, and sometimes linear arrangement of lesions.
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