Infantile acne in a 2-year-old boy
- Lilian Downie1,
- Nigel W Crawford1,2,3,
- John Su4,
- Jim P Buttery1,3,5,
- Peter W Goss6
- 1Department of General Medicine, Royal Children's Hospital (RCH), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- 2SAEFVIC, Murdoch Childrens Research Institute (MCRI), Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- 3Department of Paediatrics, The University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- 4Department of Dermatology, RCH, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- 5Paediatric Infectious Diseases Unit, Department of Paediatrics, Monash Children's Hospital, Southern Health, Monash University, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- 6Department of Paediatrics, Gippsland Paediatrics, Sale, Victoria, Australia
- Correspondence to Dr Peter W Goss, Department of Paediatrics, Gippsland Paediatrics, Cnr Guthridge St and Stead St, Sale, VIC 3850, Australia; pwgoss{at}bigpond.com
- Received 25 June 2012
- Accepted 31 July 2012
- Published Online First 31 August 2012
A 2-year-old boy presented with a 3-month history of recurrent facial cysts (figure 1). These varied in size and severity, were fluctuant, non-tender and some spontaneously discharged. There was no clinical evidence of androgen excess and this was not further investigated. He was afebrile and well apart from a background of eczema and non-immunoglobulin E (IgE) cow milk intolerance. …
