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Prominent pruritic periumbilical papules: allergic contact dermatitis to nickel
Vidya Sharma1, Deborah J Beyer, Shalini Paruthi
1Section of Dermatology, Children's Mercy Hospital, Missouri 64108, USA. vsharma@cmh.edu
Pediatric Dermatology
|May 8, 2002
Abstract:
We report a case series of 38 children with suspected allergic contact dermatitis (ACD) to nickel who presented with prominent subumbilical and periumbilical papules and a generalized, lichenoid papular dermatitis resembling an id reaction. We speculated that this was an ACD to nickel and performed patch tests in 9 (24%) of these patients. All 9 (100%) patients had positive patch test results for nickel, thus confirming the diagnosis.