We report a 42-year-old cocaine addicted female patient referred for evaluation
of hard palate ulceration resulting in oro-sinus communication with difficulties
in swallowing and phonation, an rhino-sinusitis. Acrylic and removable silicone
prosthesis was prescribed to relieve severe functional disorders. It is
essential that the patient permanently abandons cocaine use to perform surgical
reconstruction.
Una paciente de 26 años, sin antecedentes personales ni familiares de relevancia, consultó por la presencia de una dermatosis generalizada polimorfa, con extensión cefalocaudal, asociada a fiebre, de 3 días de evolución. En el examen físico se observaban múltiples pápulas, vesículas y pústulas, algunas con costra necrótica central, pruriginosas, que afectaban el cuero cabelludo, la región retroauricular, la cara, el tronco, los miembros superiores e inferiores, con compromiso de las palmas y las plantas.
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