A 6-year-old male presented to a dermatology clinic with a 1-week history of rash on his lower legs. His parents reported the rash started on the buttocks and then spread to the lower legs. It was ...

The patient was put on cefazolin 500 mg IV every 12 hours. No drug allergies were noted. Two days after starting on cefazolin, a purpuric rash broke out on the woman’s lower legs.

A 9-year-old girl presented with a 5-month history of episodic nonblanching annular red-yellow patches on her legs. The lesions resolved spontaneously after several weeks, and were asymptomatic ...

Case Study: Itchy and Painful Lesions on Legs Discussion The patient’s presentation reveals a dependent vesicular purpuric rash with necrosis. The next step in treatment is to obtain the patient ...

Mrs. B. L. was first seen by us in June, 1955, at the age of 29. She had first noted a purpuric rash distributed over the lower extremities in 1951 during the last trimester of her 1st pregnancy ...

In December, 1949, the purpura recurred. The patient presented himself at the Massachusetts General Hospital Out Patient Department in January, 1950, with several large ecchymoses on the left leg.