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volar rash; palmar rash
Rash involving palms of hands & soles of feet
Etiology:
- infections
- secondary syphilis
- disseminated gonococcus [1]
- rickettsial spotted fever
- Rocky Mountain spotted fever
- Zika virus
- Haverhill fever
- Janeway lesions (painless, 'smoke ring' macules)
- acropustulosis
- other
- erythema multiforme (erythematous plaques)
- keratoderma blenorrhagicum (pustular psoriaform rash)
- acropustulosis of infancy
- exanthematous pustulosis
- hand & foot syndrome (skin ulcers or blisters)
- hand-foot-&-mouth disease (vesicles)
- eosinophilic pustular folliculitis
- dyshidrotic eczematous dermatitis
- drug eruption
- Stevens-Johnson syndrome
Differential diagnosis:
- palmoplantar pustulosis
- SAPHO syndrome
Related
vola (palm, sole)
General
rash
References
- Medical Knowledge Self Assessment Program (MKSAP) 17, 18.
American College of Physicians, Philadelphia 2015, 2018