Khaira A, Gupta V, Gupta A, Mahajan S, Bhowmik D, Tiwari S C
Department of Nephrology, All India Institute of Medical Sciences, New Delhi-110 029, India.
J Assoc Physicians India. 2008 Sep;56:721-3.
A 19 years male presented with fever, oliguria and purpuric lesions involving both hands. The patient was diagnosed as a case of purpura fulminans with disseminated intravascular coagulation due to complicated falciparum malaria. The case is presented to sensitize the physicians to keep malaria as a differential in cases of fever with purpura fulminans.
