Gianotti-Crosti Syndrome

Classification according to ICD-10
L44.4	Infantile papular acrodermatitis (Gianotti-Crosti syndrome)
ICD-10 online (WHO version 2019)

Gianotti-Crosti Syndrome

The Gianotti-Crosti syndrome (also Acrodermatitis Papulosa eruptiva infantilis , Infantile papular acrodermatitis ) is a disease that probably as a result of hepatitis B occurs -Erstinfektion in children under ten years, mostly in male infants.

As a typical skin phenomenon, intermittent confluent reddish papules are found , preferably on the face, buttocks and on the extensor sides of the extremities with the elbow and hollow of the knees spared (in contrast to the Crosti-Gianotti syndrome ( Coxsackie virus A16), in which the acras are also involved ). Slightly increased body temperature and swelling of the spleen and lymph nodes are other symptoms.

literature

• Roche Lexicon Medicine . Urban & Schwarzenberg publishing house. 3rd edition 1993, Munich, ISBN 3-541-11213-1

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