Acne fulminans

Definition

Acne fulminans is a severe systemic disease in which acute inflammatory acne with multiple follicular abscesses and skin ulceration is accompanied by fever, weight loss and arthralgia. It typically affects adolescent white males.

Also indexed as

Nearby in Severe inflammatory acne

• ED80.41Acne conglobata
• 4B4YOther specified diseases of the immune system
• 4B4ZDiseases of the immune system, unspecified