© 2002 The Fellowship of Postgraduate Medicine
SELF ASSESSMENT QUESTION
Rash
An episodic eruption
Department of Rheumatology, Northwick Park Hospital, Harrow, Middlesex, UK
Correspondence to:
Correspondence to:
Dr P Bentley, Wellcome Department of Imaging Neuroscience, Institute of Neurology, 12 Queen Square, London WC1N 3BG, UK
Accepted 3 July 2001
Answers on p 252.
| The first 150 words of the full text of this article appear below. |
A 72 year old woman presented with a fleeting rash, lasting several days at a time, on both thighs and lower trunk, over a four month period (fig 1
). The eruption was non-pruritic and non-palpable, and occurred on different parts of the legs at different times. She had a 30 year history of seropositive, erosive rheumatoid arthritis and a five year history of secondary Sjogren's syndrome. The patient also had two sinuses on the sole of her right foot, which had been present for a year, and which were being treated conservatively with cleansing and dressing. There were no other new symptoms on admission. Her medication had not changed in over a year, and consisted of methotrexate 15 mg/week (plus folic acid), prednisolone 15 mg/day, diclofenac, thioridazine, and doxepin.
[in a new window] Figure 1 Rash on medial aspect of both legs (reproduced with patient's permission).
| |||||||||
She had a mild normocytic anaemia (haemoglobin concentration
CiteULike 
Complore 
Connotea 
Del.icio.us 
Digg 
Reddit 
Technorati What's this?
Relevant Articles
-
A proliferating pimple
Postgrad. Med. J. 2002 78: 251-252.[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]
-
An episodic eruption
Postgrad. Med. J. 2002 78: 252-253.[Extract] [Full Text] [PDF]
- Full Text
- Full Text (PDF)
- Submit a response
- Alert me when this article is cited
- Alert me when eLetters are posted
- Alert me if a correction is posted
Services
- Email this link to a friend
- Similar articles in this journal
- Similar articles in PubMed
- Add article to my folders
- Download to citation manager
- Request Permissions
Citing Articles
Google Scholar
PubMed
Topic Collections
Bookmark with
Register for free content
The full back archive is now available for all BMJ Journals. Institutional subscribers may access the entire archive as part of their subscription. Personal subscribers will also have access to all content when logged in. Non-subscribers who register have free access to all articles published before 2006 right back to volume 1 issue 1. Register here to access the free archive of all BMJ Journals.
Don't forget to sign up for content alerts so you keep up to date with all the articles as they are published.
