A Patient With Fever and Rash

Abstract

A 20-year-old man presented to the emergency department in May 2013 with a new rash that had gradually progressed over 1 day. He also noted several days of sore throat, fever, malaise, and cervical lymphadenopathy preceding the rash. He lived in Maryland, his medical history was unremarkable, and he denied any new medications. On physical exam, he had enlarged tonsils and cervical lymphadenopathy. He had no hepatosplenomegaly. In addition, his skin showed erythematous papules too numerous to count, as well as plaques of varying size and morphology on his face, trunk, palms, and extremities, yet there were no lesions on his mucus membranes or genitals (Figures 1-3). The lesions were nonblanching and mildly pruritic. Initial laboratory evaluation in the emergency department

Dermatological manifestations of Epstein‐Barr virus systemic infection: a case report and literature review

“…We found 264 studies related to the possible cutaneous and mucosal manifestations during EBV acute infection; we selected the articles that more exhaustively reported the clinical and laboratory description of the case/cases, 5‐45 published from 1954 to 2018 (Table 1).…”