Please provide your email address to receive an email when new articles are posted on . A 3-year-old girl came running into her house, crying loudly with pain in her right hand. Her mother noticed ...

Crops of sterile pustules appear in groups on the palmoplantar surfaces. The surrounding skin is thickened, scaly, and erythematous. The right, dominant hand is more affected than the left. There are ...

Pustules are a type of pimple filled with yellowish pus, often showing as red bumps with white centers that may feel tender. Pastules often appear on oily or sweaty areas such as the face, back, ...

Localized pustular psoriasis is a term that refers to a limited area of small pus-filled blisters on your skin, typically on your hands or feet. It is distinct from generalized pustular psoriasis (GPP ...

<img src="https://www.clinicaladvisor.com/wp-content/uploads/sites/11/2018/12/dc1007case2.gif" A 45-year-old white man presented to the emergency department (ED) with ...

Mark G. Lebwohl, MD, discusses how IL-36 mutations can play a part in disease presentation and how IL-17 and IL-23 pathways are more often implicated in plaque psoriasis. Aaron Farberg, MD, and Maria ...

Generalized pustular psoriasis (GPP) is a rare, life-threatening, inflammatory skin disease characterized by widespread eruption of sterile pustules. Interleukin-36 signaling is involved in the ...

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You’ve probably heard of psoriasis—the chronic inflammatory condition that can cause itchy, scaly patches on your skin. Less well-known is a rare form of the disease called pustular psoriasis, which ...

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GPP can be triggered by the initiation and withdrawal of various medications, in particular the withdrawal of corticosteroids, and by infections, stress, and other conditions. 1,5,6,10 Patients with a ...