Catalog
Acute desquamating skin eruption
Link to WHO Definition
Acute desquamating skin eruption – http://id.who.int/icd/entity/317520014
A provisional diagnosis for a skin eruption of unknown or uncertain nature which arises abruptly and in which desquamation (shedding of skin scales) is a prominent feature. This is seen characteristically in the later stages of many acute viral exanthemata but may also be seen in drug reactions and in unstable and erythrodermic psoriasis.