Purpura Fulminans in a Child:
A Case Report
Published: December 1, 2012 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.7860/JCDR/2012/.2618
Shrikiran Aroor, Chaitanya Varma, Suneel C Mundkur
1. Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Kasturba Medical
College, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
2. Assistant professor, Department of Paediatrics, Kasturba
Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
3. Associate Professor, Department of Paediatrics, Kasturba
Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
Correspondence Address :
Dr. Chaitanya Varma
Assistant professor, Department of Paediatrics,
Kasturba Medical College, Manipal, Karnataka, India.
Phone: +919964143170.
Em-ail: pvc_varma@yahoo.com.
Abstract
Purpura Fulminans is a life threatening condition characterised by cutaneous haemorrhage and gangrenous necrosis. We present such a case in an eight year old child.
Keywords
Necrosis, Peripheral gangrene, Pseudomonas, Purpura Fulminans