THE observation of a newborn infant with widespread petechiae and thrombocytopenia born to a mother who had had rubella during the 1964 epidemic stimulated us to seek other newborn and older children ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 4-month-old male presents to pediatric dermatology clinic for evaluation of new-onset red spots on his ...

Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 9-year-old girl presented with a 5-month history of episodic nonblanching annular red-yellow patches on her ...

Also known as pigmented purpuric dermatoses, benign pigmented purpura (BPP) include a spectrum of disorders characterized clinically by a purpura that morphologically appears to have distinct forms ...

The course of untreated idiopathic thrombocytopenic purpura usually takes one of two forms, acute or chronic; the former is usually self-limited, and the latter is self-perpetuating. Hirsch and ...

Last week Editor Morris Fishbein, who is particularly interested in purpura, published in his Journal of the American Medical Association two ways of treating that blood disease. The methods were ...