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Dengue haemorrhagic fever with Roth's spot Volume 26, numéro 1, January-February 2016

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Auteurs
1 Department of Dermatology,
2 Department of Pathology,
3 Department of Ophthalmology,
Toho University Ohashi Medical Center,
2-17-6, Ohashi, Meguro-ku,
Tokyo 153-8515, Japan

Dengue fever (DF) is an infectious disease caused by the dengue virus (DENV). In addition to symptoms such as pyrexia, myalgia, arthralgia and eye pain, it presents with the characteristic skin finding of “white islands in a sea of red”. Serious cases include dengue hemorrhagic fever (DHF) and dengue shock syndrome (DSS). We report a DHF patient with a Roth's spot.A 62-year-old man had returned from Thailand with fever (38 °C). He visited our department for systemic erythema developing 6 days after [...]