Fulminant acne in a patient from a native town of Paraguay
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Acne vulgaris is a common skin disease with a great impact on quality of life. Acne fulminans is a rare and severe variant of inflammatory acne. Very few cases of acne in ethnic people are described in the literature. We present the case of a 13-year-old girl, originally from an ethnic town in Paraguay, in whom a severe presentation of inflammatory acne, acne fulminans, was observed. Antibiotic treatment associated with prednisone was carried out, the patient abandoned follow-up and therefore the recommended treatment of Isotretinoin was not started.
The case presented in particular corresponds to a severe form of acne in a population with low reports of this disease. We consider the study of the factors involved in the development of the disease to be important.
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Perkins AC, Cheng CE, Hillebrand GG, Miyamoto K, Kimball AB. Comparison of the epidemiology of acne vulgaris among Caucasian, Asian, Continental Indian and African American women. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2011;25(9):1054-60. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2010.03919.x.
Perkins AC, Cheng CE, Hillebrand GG, Miyamoto K, Kimball AB. Comparison of the epidemiology of acne vulgaris among Caucasian, Asian, Continental Indian and African American women. J Eur Acad Dermatol Venereol. 2011;25(9):1054-60. doi: 10.1111/j.1468-3083.2010.03919.x.