Acute erythematous skin eruption

Definition

A provisional diagnosis for a skin eruption of unknown or uncertain nature which arises abruptly and consists predominantly of diffuse cutaneous erythema. A classical cause is scarlet fever but reactions to other bacterial toxins, drugs and certain foods or acute graft-versus-host disease may present with a similar picture.

Also indexed as

Nearby in Acute skin eruption of uncertain or unspecified nature

• ME62.1Acute purpuric skin eruption
• ME62.2Acute urticarial skin eruption
• ME62.3Acute maculopapular skin eruption
• ME62.4Acute papular skin eruption
• ME62.5Acute exudative skin eruption
• ME62.6Acute blistering skin eruption
• ME62.7Acute desquamating skin eruption
• ME62.8Acute discoid or annular skin eruption