Descriptive terminology
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Acute hemorrhagic edema of young children* (or: infancy)
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Cockade (or: iris-like) purpura and edema of young children
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Acute benign cutaneous leukocytoclastic vasculitis of young children
Eponyms
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Finkelstein disease
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Seidlmayer disease
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Finkelstein–Seidlmayer disease (or: vasculitis)*
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Henoch–Schönlein purpura of early childhood
* We recommend one of these two terms
The clinical features resemble erythema multiforme. The condition has also been inappropriately termed infantile erythema multiforme.
