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Fuchs‘ Syndrome (Stevens-Johnson Syndrome Without Skin Involvement) in an Adult Male – A Case Report and General Characteristics of the Sporadically Diagnosed Disease
Jan Sternbersky
; Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacky University and University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic
Martin Tichy
; Department of Dermatology and Venereology, Faculty of Medicine and Dentistry, Palacky University and University Hospital Olomouc, Czech Republic
Abstract
Fuchs’ syndrome (Stevens-Johnson syndrome without skin involvement) is a sporadically diagnosed disease. Most authors consider it to be a pure mucosal variant of Stevens-Johnson syndrome; however, some consider the syndrome a separate entity. The complete absence of cutaneous symptoms may be the reason that not all cases of Fuchs’ syndrome are diagnosed and properly classified.
The authors describe a case of a 22-year-old patient suffering only from mucosal symptoms, diagnosed as Fuchs’ syndrome from the context of the tests performed. A Mycoplasma pneumoniae infection triggered the disease onset. Mycoplasma infection, as a trigger factor of Fuchs’ syndrome in adults, has so far been described in only a few isolated cases worldwide.
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130869
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Publication date:
17.12.2014.
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