TRANSIENT NEONATAL PUSTULAR MELANOSIS

Year 2000, Volume: 13 Issue: 4, 230 - 232, 03.12.2016

Gülsen Sönmezışık Hakan Yaman

Abstract

The presence of vesicular or pustular lesion in the neonatal period evokes justifiable concern in a clinician caring for this vulnerable population. Both life-threatening bacterial and viral infections may present in this fashion.
We present a white male neonate who was diagnosed as transient neonatal pustular melanosis. It is important to differentiate this type of benign and transient dermatosis from life- threatening pyoderma, because its recognition may spare the healthy neonate from extensive sepsis work-up, antibiotic therapy, and prolonged hospitalisation.
Key Words: Neonate, Dermatosis,
Pyoderma, Transient neonatal pustular melanosis

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