Erythema multiforme is an immune-mediated reaction that causes a raised, red, target-like rash on the skin or mucous membranes. It often resolves on its own but may require medical treatment.

Conditions like vasculitic urticaria, erythema multiforme, and urticaria pigmentosa mimic urticaria but differ in etiology and treatment. Accurate diagnosis requires distinguishing urticaria from ...

Children may be irritable and uncomfortable but do not appear toxic. Many people confuse urticaria multiforme for erythema multiforme, which is generally triggered by a herpes simplex virus infection.

Erythema multiforme (EM) is an acute, immune-mediated, mucocutaneous eruption marked by symmetrically distributed targetoid lesions. 10 The typical EM lesion morphology is a targetoid round macule ...

Erythema multiforme is a skin disorder that results from an allergic reaction to either a medication or an infection. Its hallmark sign is red, patchy, raised areas that are shaped like targets (a ...

This is urticaria (C), but was initially thought to be Erythema Multiforme, mainly because of the annular nature of some of the lesions with their dark centers, or the giant “multiforme ...

Erythema migrans and erythema multiforme both cause target- or bull’s-eye-shaped lesions. Erythema migrans is due to Lyme disease. Erythema multiforme is an immune-mediated hypersensitivity skin ...

10 These disorders are characterized by pruritic wheals with circumferential erythema on any part of the body. Figure 1 shows urticaria on the skin of a Black patient and on the skin of a White ...

Rather, it can be a symptom of an underlying condition, such as: erythema migrans, which tends to stay in one place on the body erythema multiforme ... is misdiagnosed as hives, delaying testing ...