Abstract
The patient was a four-month old boy, who was found to have facial erythema at 11 days after birth, and was brought to our department because the areas of erythema had gradually increased in size and spread over the extremeties and trunk. On presentation, mildly infiltrative areas of annular erythema the size of an adult hand were partially fused and scattered irregulary over almost his entire body. Laboratory tests were normal except for GOT and GPT levels which were occasionally raised until he was one year old. The areas of annular erythema gradually expanded and then disappeared about five weeks after his birth irrespective of his liver function. At one year of age, the patient contracted chickenpox, and the erythema totally disappeared for about 4 weeks. On the other hand, from about one year of age, areas ranging from the dorsa of the hands to the dorsal surfaces of both wrists began to show thinning of the adipose tissue resembling the symptoms normally seen in adults. Annular erythema recurred repeatedly even at 3.5 years of age.
