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Cutaneous manifestations of viral infections in pediatric patients can provide the first critical clues to disease development. While often self-limiting, viral infections can cause serious morbidity and mortality in vulnerable pediatric populations. In this chapter, we review the clinical presentation, differential diagnosis and treatment of hand foot mouth disease, neonatal herpes simplex virus infection, disseminated varicella zoster in an immunocompromised patient and Lipschütz ulcers.

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  1. Department of Pediatric Dermatology, The Children’s Hospital of Philadelphia, 3550 Market Street, 2nd Floor, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    Patrick McMahon MD & Robert James Smith BS

  2. The Perelman School of Medicine at the University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia, PA, 19104, USA

    Patrick McMahon MD & Robert James Smith BS

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McMahon, P., Smith, R.J. (2016). Viral Infections. In: Hogeling, M. (eds) Case-Based Inpatient Pediatric Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-31569-0_2

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