All of you are on the right track, another hint is that pic is of a young infant (if you look closely you can see his diaper), and that the rings are around the knee joint.
I'll post the answer tomorrow just to give other people a chance to try, but keep trying to figure it out, you're almost there.
candida seems to be a more probable, as diaper rash will follow the area which is in contact with diaper,also will never be in crural fold(though ot show here, where as candida can spread the way in this picture.. candida is characterized by erosions, red plaques and satellite lesions like in here...
Update :
Case : A 45 year old circus animal trainer came to the ER with severe anaphylactic shock. He has a history of abdominal discomfort. This organism was found to have caused his condition.
Update :
Case : A 45 year old circus animal trainer came to the ER with severe anaphylactic shock. He has a history of abdominal discomfort. This organism was found to have caused his condition.
Yea I realised that my information was incomplete. Sorry guys! I have inserted another photo of a different angle of the same organism, and included a clinical scenario as well.
Alrite the answer to the second picture is serum sickness caused by type III hypersensitivity.
When there are immune complexes involved, causing joint symptoms, myalgias and fever, it is usually referred to as a serum sickness reaction, as shown in figure 6. As you know serum sickness is also associated with arthirits, so that's why you can see most of rings over the knee and pelvic joint put skips a portion of the thigh.
C'mon, ..I was right, it's urticaria, how on earth can anyone possibly know that serum sickness caused it, ofcourse the arthritis is not obvious, compared to the rest of the leg, the knee is not swollen...
Hey DrSeddik, i know it's a frusturating pic and hard to tell without patient history; i only came across it because i had to look up serum sickness so i can associate it with a pic. In any case urticaria looks a bit different.
Look at the pic i pasted, and the pattern of spread.
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