A purpuric rash is made up of small, discolored spots under your skin from leaking blood vessels. It can be caused by conditions that range from mild to life threatening.

A 6-year-old male presented to a dermatology clinic with a 1-week history of rash on his lower legs. His parents reported the rash started on the buttocks and then spread to the lower legs. It was ...

A 47-year-old man had a three-month history of intermittent rash on the lower legs. The rash consisted of symmetric ringlike coalescing purpuric patches in a netlike pattern.

Two days after starting on cefazolin, a purpuric rash broke out on the woman’s lower legs. Biopsy showed vascular and perivascular infiltration of polymorphonuclear leukocytes that had fractured ...

A 9-year-old girl presented with a 5-month history of episodic nonblanching annular red-yellow patches on her legs. The lesions resolved spontaneously after several weeks, and were asymptomatic.

This rash looked purpuric, and indeed it failed to blanch under a glass slide. My gut reaction in this situation – provided the patient is not obviously acutely unwell – is to wonder what the platelet ...

In fact, given that the mum had treated the child with some doses of ibuprofen, a drug-related rash remained a strong possibility. One obscure differential was Henoch-Schonlein purpura. The ...

Physical examination in June, 1955, showed a well nourished woman who was 173 cm. (68 inches) tall and weighed 51.3 kg. (113 pounds). There was a diffuse purpuric rash on both lower extremities.

"Other times, heat rashes on legs, which are more red like cayenne pepper, can be related to heat and sun, called pigmented purpuric dermatosis, which usually is a benign and self-limiting rash ...

"Other times, heat rashes on legs, which are more red like cayenne pepper, can be related to heat and sun, called pigmented ...

Liz Cusack wasn't especially concerned when she noticed a rash on her legs and arms in 2006. It was probably an allergic reaction to laundry detergent, she surmised. Or maybe it was the stress of ...