You are here

Article Text

Article menu
Download PDFPDF
Miscellanea
Images in paediatrics
Bilateral palatine ulcers in a neonate: Bednar’s aphthae
  1. Martin Theiler1,2,3,
  2. Agnes Schwieger-Briel1,3,
  3. Micòl Cont3,4,
  4. Christa Relly4,5,
  5. Patrick M Meyer Sauteur4,5
  1. 1 Division of Dermatology, University Children’s Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  2. 2 Department of Dermatology, University Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  3. 3 Children’s Research Centre, University Children’s Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  4. 4 Division of General Paediatrics, University Children’s Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  5. 5 Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Children’s Hospital Zurich, Zurich, Switzerland
  1. Correspondence to Dr Patrick M Meyer Sauteur, Division of Infectious Diseases and Hospital Epidemiology, University Children’s Hospital Zurich Steinwiesstrasse 75, CH-8032 Zurich, Switzerland ; patrick.meyer{at}kispi.uzh.ch

https://doi.org/10.1136/archdischild-2017-314045

Statistics from Altmetric.com

    Request Permissions

    If you wish to reuse any or all of this article please use the link below which will take you to the Copyright Clearance Center’s RightsLink service. You will be able to get a quick price and instant permission to reuse the content in many different ways.

    A 3-week-old baby boy was admitted with progressive oral ulcerations on the posterior hard palate (figure 1).

    Figure 1

    A 3-week-old boy with large-sized ulcerations located on the posterior region of the hard palate (lateral view).

    The parents first noted lesions one week prior to admission. The erosions did not respond to miconazole gel and increasingly interfered with feeding: he cried during bottlefeeding and finally refused the bottle. He was the second child …

    View Full Text

    Footnotes

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Patient consent Parental/guardian consent obtained.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; externally peer reviewed.