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	Erythema marginatum - WrongDiagnosis.com
		Erythema marginatum (medical condition): A condition which is characterized by reddened areas of the skin which are disk shaped with elevated edges.
		Erythema Marginatum: an evanescent, erythematous rash characteris- tically (though not commonly) seen in the early stages of rheumatic fever.
		Erythema marginatum: Erythema marginatum is listed as a type of (or associated with) the following medical conditions in our database: Erythema
	www.wrongdiagnosis.com /medical/erythema_marginatum.htm (383 words)

	Dorlands Medical Dictionary
		gyra´tum erythema multiforme characterized by gyrate, figurate, circinate, annular, arcuate, polycyclic, serpiginous, or reticulate lesions that tend to migrate and spread peripherally with central clearing.
		margina´tum rheuma´ticum a superficial, often asymptomatic, form of gyrate erythema sometimes seen with rheumatic fever; it is characterized by transient eruption on the trunk and extensor surfaces of the limbs of flat to slightly indurated, nonscaling, and usually multiple lesions..
		nodo´sum mi´grans a variant of erythema nodosum in which the lesions are asymmetrical, often unilateral, usually less acute and less numerous than those in the classic disorder, with coalescence and clearing of older central nodules and formation of new lesions nearby, which gives the appearance of migration.
	www.mercksource.com /pp/us/cns/cns_hl_dorlands.jspzQzpgzEzzSzppdocszSzuszSzcommonzSzdorlandszSzdorlandzSzdmd_e_15zPzhtm (3884 words)

	erythema - HighBeam Encyclopedia (Site not responding. Last check: )
		erythema, more or less diffuse redness of the skin due to concentration of an abnormally large amount of blood within the small vessels of the skin (hyperemia), as in burns.
		Erythema nodosum is often associated with systemic diseases such as tuberculosis and rheumatic fever.
		Erythema multiforme can have a number of causes, including viral and bacterial infection, chronic disease of the visceral organs, or allergic reactions to drugs.
	www.encyclopedia.com /doc/1E1-erythema.html (573 words)

	Erythema Marginatum - Patient UK
		Erythema marginatum is a rash that is associated with acute rheumatic fever and sometimes called erythema marginatum rheumatica.
		The term erythema annulare is sometimes used for erythema marginatum but erythema annulare centrifugum is classified as one of the figurate or gyrate erythemas.
		Erythema marginatum is really, by definition, associated with rheumatic fever.
	www.patient.co.uk /showdoc/40001003 (1109 words)

	Rheumatic Fever: Pediatrics: Merck Manual Professional
		Rheumatic fever is a nonsuppurative, acute inflammatory complication of group A streptococcal infection, causing combinations of arthritis, carditis, subcutaneous nodules, erythema marginatum, and chorea.
		Erythema marginatum differs histologically from other skin lesions with similar macroscopic appearance, eg, the rash of systemic-onset juvenile rheumatoid arthritis (JRA), Henoch-Schönlein purpura, erythema chronicum migrans, and erythema multiforme.
		Erythema marginatum is a serpiginous, flat or slightly raised, nonscarring, and painless rash.
	www.merck.com /mmpe/print/sec19/ch281/ch281a.html (2659 words)

	Family Works!: Urticaria (Hives)
		The welts may be as small as a mosquito bite (often-termed papular urticaria) or an inch or more in diameter.
		The can be sparse or so plentiful that they merge into large collections of irregularly shaped welts, called erythema multiforme.
		(A similar rash, called erythema marginatum, can be a consequence of an untreated by strep throat and has a flat or slightly irregular raised edge and a large skin-colored center.) Whether they are small and sparse or large and grotesque, parents are often concerned about hives.
	www.princetonol.com /family/columns/pedgroup34.html (582 words)

	Rheumatic Fever and Rheumatic Heart Disease - Definition, Causes, Symptoms and Treatments
		In 5% of patients (generally those with carditis), rheumatic fever causes skin lesions such as erythema marginatum.
		Rheumatic fever may also produce firm, movable, non tender, subcutaneous nodules about 3 mm to 2 cm in diameter, usually near tendons or bony prominences of joints (especially the elbows, knuckles, wrists, and knees) and less often on the scalp and backs of the hands.
		White blood cell count and erythrocyte sedimentation rate may be elevated (during the acute phase) and blood studies show slight anemia from suppressed erythropoiesis during inflammation.
	www.health-care-tips.org /diseases/rheumatic-fever-and-rheumatic-heart-disease.htm (1453 words)

	Erythema Marginatum: Picture, Symptoms and Home Treatments
		Erythema Marginatumis an uncommon skin disease which may affect people of all ages.
		Following are the causes, symptoms and Treatment of Erythema Marginatum.
		The cause of Erythema Marginatumare attributed to the genetic pattern of a person.
	www.disease-condition.com /skin-disorders/erythema-marginatum.htm (133 words)

	ERYTHEMA
		Erythema is reddish discolouration of skin it can be generalized erythema or localised erythema.
		Erythema Multiforms in Steven Johnson syndrome, Erythema chronicum migrans in Lymer disease.
		Erythema gyrotum upon in internal malignanacy, necrolytic migratory erythema in glucagonoma.
	www.tnhealth.org /facts/erythema.htm (235 words)

	"Wood-Grain" Skin American Family Physician - Find Articles
		Erythema gyratum repens is one of the four classic gyrate erythemas (the others are erythema marginatum, erythema chronicum migrans, and erythema annulare centrifugum).
		Erythema gyratum repens is characterized by several concentric, erythematous, flat to slightly raised bands with fine white scale in waves at the leading edge of the erythema.
		Erythema chronicum migrans is an expanding erythematous thin plaque associated with an Ixodes tick bite and Borrelia infection.
	www.findarticles.com /p/articles/mi_m3225/is_7_73/ai_n16346680 (780 words)

	Gyrate erythema associated with metastatic tumor of gastrointestinal tract
		Erythema gyratum repens is a rare paraneoplastic dermatosis commonly associated with underlying malignancy [1, 2].
		Erythema gyratum repens is most commonly associated with bronchial, esophageal, and breast cancer [5, 6], but has been reported rarely in patients without evidence of malignancy [7].
		Erythema annulare centrifugum is described in association with dermatophyte infections, infestations, and malignancy, but often the etiology of EAC remains unclear [8,9].
	dermatology.cdlib.org /126/case_presentations/gyrate/nikolic.html (829 words)

	Posttravel \| Skin problems
		Erythema nodosum leprosum forms a single entity, to be distinguished from classical erythema nodosum.
		Streptococcal and Yersinia enterocolitica infections are seldom complicated by erythema nodosum.
		Erythema chronicum migrans is caused by infection with Borrelia burgdorferi (Lyme disease).
	www.itg.be /itg/DistanceLearning/LectureNotesVandenEndenE/15_Skin_problems.htm (2670 words)

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		Erythema chronicum migrans is caused by infection with Borrelia burgdorferi XE "Borrelia burgdorferi:Post-travel, cutaneous problems, figured erythema" (Lyme disease).
		Erythema marginatum is a transient erythema and is one of the major Jones’ criteria for the diagnosis of acute rheumatic fever.
		Erythema annulare centrifugum is a red, flat or slightly elevated lesion that slowly spreads.
	www.itg.be /itg/DistanceLearning/LectureNotesVandenEndenE/Teksten/posttravel/15_Skin_problems.doc (3193 words)

	Annular lesions American Family Physician - Find Articles
		Erythema annulare centrifugum belongs to the class of skin lesions known as the gyrate or figurate erythemas.
		These include erythema marginatum (associated with rheumatic heart disease), erythema gyratum repens (a paraneoplastic eruption often associated with lung carcinoma), and erythema chronicum migrans (associated with Lyme disease).
		The etiology and pathogenesis of erythema annulare centrifugum are unknown, but it may represent a cutaneous hypersensitivity reaction pattern to a separate underlying immunologic insult.
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	Welcome to Pedsny!
		It results from a throat or tonsil infection that is caused by group A beta hemolytic streptococci, commonly referred to as "strep throat." Rheumatic fever is a side effect of the strep infection, not part of the infection itself.
		Rheumatic fever affects the heart; the joints; the skin, i.e., an unusual rash called erythema marginatum, and subcutaneous nodules, which are small, pea-sized nodules under the skin; or the central nervous system, i.e., Sydenham's chorea, commonly known as St. Vitus dance.
		The rash of rheumatic fever, called erythema marginatum, is uncommon, and it is seen in only about 5% to 8% of patients.
	www.pediatricweb.com /pedsny/article.asp?ArticleID=843&ArticleType=9 (1722 words)

	Cecil Textbook of Medicine : />
		The clinical picture of the disease may thus be quite variable (Table 309-1), depending on which systems are attacked, whether they are involved singly or in combination, and the severity of the involvement.
		Overall, however, arthritis occurs in approximately 75% of initial attacks of acute rheumatic fever, carditis in 40 to 50%, chorea in 15%, and subcutaneous nodules and erythema marginatum in fewer than 10%.
		In most cases, erythema marginatum is accompanied by carditis; it also tends to be associated with subcutaneous nodules.
	www.merckmedicus.com /ppdocs/us/common/cecils/chapters/309_007.htm (2068 words)

	399 Medicine I, Spring 2006 - OpenCourseWare - Tufts University
		erythema marginatum (a serpiginous, doughnut-shaped, fast-disappearing rash); or
		Arthritis, carditis, chorea, erythema marginatum and subcutaneous nodules are referred to as the Major Jones Criteria.
		The arthritis in rheumatic fever has a migratory pattern of spread—the pain and inflammation affecting one set of joints and when their inflammation subsides, it results in the migration of the inflammation and pain to another set of joints.
	ocw.tufts.edu /Content/24/lecturenotes/311818 (523 words)

	The Turkish Journal of Pediatrics
		In spite of benzatine penicillin therapy, we noted chest pain, erythema marginatum-like rash, and swelling of the joints involving finger and knee joints, withoutsystemic or local increase in temperature during the recurrent episodes of HAE (Fig.
		Occasionally mottling, a transient serpiginous erythema, or frank erythema marginatum may precede the edema, suggesting an immediate hypersensitivity reaction[11].
		A diagnosis of allergic reaction and ARF were made in the present case because of transient erythema and erythema marginatum, respectively.
	tjp.dergisi.org /text.php3?id=85 (1931 words)

	It's back on the back: An itchy red rash - Contemporary Pediatrics
		In erythema chronicum migrans, single or multiple lesions develop after a bite from a deer tick infected with Borrelia burgdorferi and after hematogenous dissemination takes place in the patient.
		Erythema marginatum appears as widespread symmetric annular, polycyclic, and scalloped red plaques over the trunk.
		It is associated with rheumatic fever; however, erythema marginatum has not been observed in recent outbreaks of rheumatic fever.
	www.contemporarypediatrics.com /contpeds/article/articleDetail.jsp?id=101151 (982 words)

	RHEUMATIC FEVER (Site not responding. Last check: )
		Rheumatic fever is an inflammatory disease that occurs as a delayed, nonsuppurative sequel of upper respiratory infection with group A streptococci.
		The clinical picture of the disease may thus be quite variable (Table 277-1), depending on which systems are attacked, whether they are involved singly or in combination, and the severity of the involvement.
		In the great majority of cases, erythema marginatum is accompanied by carditis; it also tends to be associated with subcutaneous nodules.
	www.infomed.hpg.ig.com.br /febrereumatica.html (6401 words)

	Introduction: Erythema - CureResearch.com
		Researching symptoms of Erythema: Further information about the symptoms of Erythema is available including a list of symptoms of Erythema, or alternatively return to research other symptoms in the symptom center.
		Treatments for Erythema: Various information is available about treatments available for Erythema, or research treatments for other diseases.
		Statistics and Erythema: Various sources and calculations are available in statistics about Erythema, and you can also research other medical statistics in our statistics center.
	www.cureresearch.com /e/erythema/intro.htm (322 words)

	The Analyst - Internet Health Report: Condition: Rheumatic Fever
		The major symptoms of rheumatic fever are: carditis, polyarthritis, chorea, subcutaneous nodules, and a rash called erythema marginatum.
		Erythema marginatum is a rash that appears mostly on the trunk and extremities.
		The peak age of incidence for rheumatic fever is 5 to 15 years, but cases do occur in adults.
	www.digitalnaturopath.com /cond/C653457.html (581 words)

	eMedicine - Acute Rheumatic Fever : Article Excerpt by Robert J Meador
		Diagnosis rests on a combination of clinical manifestations that can develop in relation to group A streptococcal pharyngitis.
		These include chorea, carditis, subcutaneous nodules, erythema marginatum, and migratory polyarthritis.
		Because the inciting infection is completely treatable, attention has been refocused on prevention.
	www.emedicine.com /med/byname/acute-rheumatic-fever.htm (773 words)

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