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A 3-month-old child with a grossly symmetrical monomorphic papular acral-located skin eruption, a voluminous lymphadenopathy post-BCG vaccination, and hepatomegaly was seen. The diagnoses of Gianotti-Crosti's syndrome and generalized tuberculous infection have been discarded. The appearance of these lesions 48 hours after a tuberculin patch test, their tuberculoid structure, and the absence of any systemic involvement favored the diagnosis of papular tuberculids, a rarely reported complication of BCG vaccination.
View Article and Find Full Text PDFA 6-year-old boy is reported with infectious mononucleosis and a monomorphous papular eruption on the face, buttocks and limbs, as described by Gianotti and Crosti. Three types of juvenile papular acrodermatitis are to be distinguished: Gianotti-Crosti's disease, the papular acrosyndrome of Gianotti-Crosti and the papular acral manifestations caused by various viral infections. But might these eruptions not rather be the cutaneous symptom of a viral affection?
View Article and Find Full Text PDF6 cases of acrodermatitis papulosa eruptiva infantum (acrodermatitis papulosa infantilis or Gianotti-Crostisyndrome: G.C.S.
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