Open AccessA profile of 23 indian patients with purpura fulminans: A retrospective, descriptive study
Author(s) -
Sudip Kumar Ghosh,
Debabrata Bandyopadhyay,
Abhijit Dutta,
Phoebe Jane,
Surajit Kumar Biswas
Publication year - 2020
Publication title -
indian journal of dermatology/indian journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.395
H-Index - 36
eISSN - 1998-3611
pISSN - 0019-5154
DOI - 10.4103/ijd.ijd_8_19
Subject(s) - medicine , purpura fulminans , gangrene , disseminated intravascular coagulation , surgery , amputation , sepsis , purpura (gastropod) , rash , ecology , biology
Purpura fulminans (PF) is a potentially fatal uncommon disorder of intravascular thrombosis and is clinically characterized by rapidly progressive hemorrhagic infarction of the skin.