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Multifocal fixed drug eruption mimicking erythema multiforme
1Department of Dermatology, North Staffordshire Hospital Centre, Stoke-on-Trent, UK.
Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
|September 1, 1990
Abstract:
A 38-year-old woman presented with a widespread bullous eruption that recurred during menstruation. Skin biopsy suggested erythema multiforme. As she was receiving synthetic progesterones for dysmenorrhoea the diagnosis of an auto-immune progesterone dermatitis was considered. However, subsequent investigations confirmed the diagnosis to be a fixed drug eruption to mefenamic acid taken for dysmenorrhoea.