Otolaryngology Book

//fpnotebook.com/

Erythema Multiforme Differential Diagnosis

Aka: Erythema Multiforme Differential Diagnosis
  1. See Also
    1. Erythema Multiforme Causes
    2. Centripetal Rash
    3. Life-Threatening Drug-Induced Rashes
    4. Erythema Mutiforme Minor
    5. Erythema Multiforme Major (Stevens-Johnson Syndrome)
    6. Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis
  2. Differential Diagnosis: Severe illnesses with Erythema Multiforme type lesions
    1. See Life-Threatening Drug-Induced Rashes
    2. Erythema Multiforme Major (Stevens Johnson Syndrome) include mucous membrane involvement
    3. Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis
  3. Differential Diagnosis: General Skin Lesions
    1. Chronic Urticaria
      1. Urticarial lesions persist <24 hours, then migrate
      2. Contrast with Erythema Multiforme lesions remain fixed for at least 7 days
    2. Serum Sickness
    3. Figurate erythema
    4. Toxic erythema
      1. Viral Exanthem
      2. Fixed Drug Eruption
    5. Graft versus host disease
    6. Necrotizing Vasculitis
    7. Systemic Lupus Erythematosus
    8. Erythema Nodosum
    9. Pityriasis Rosea
    10. Polymorphous light eruption
  4. Differential Diagnosis: Vesiculobullous lesions
    1. Bullous Pemphigoid
    2. Pemphigus Vulgaris
    3. Impetigo
    4. Toxic Epidermal Necrolysis
    5. Dermatitis Herpetiformis
    6. Behcet's Syndrome
    7. Reiter's Syndrome
  5. Differential Diagnosis: Mucocutaneous lesions (Erythema Multiforme Major)
    1. See Oral Ulcer
    2. Cicatricial Pemphigoid
    3. Pemphigus Vulgaris
    4. Lichen Planus
    5. Aphthous Ulcer
    6. Acute Herpetic Mucositis
  6. References
    1. Long (2016) Crit Dec Emerg Med 30(7):3-10
    2. Lamoreux (2006) Am Fam Physician 74:1883-8 [PubMed]
    3. Leaute-Labreze (2000) Arch Dis Child 83:347-52 [PubMed]
    4. Trayes (2019) Am Fam Physician 100(2): 82-8 [PubMed]
    5. Williams (2005) Dent Clin North Am 49:67-76 [PubMed]

You are currently viewing the original 'fpnotebook.com\legacy' version of this website. Internet Explorer 8.0 and older will automatically be redirected to this legacy version.

If you are using a modern web browser, you may instead navigate to the newer desktop version of fpnotebook. Another, mobile version is also available which should function on both newer and older web browsers.

Please Contact Me as you run across problems with any of these versions on the website.

Navigation Tree