A Neonate with Knotted Lanugo

A term 12-day-old girl was admitted to the neonatal intensive care unit for the assessment of speckled black small spines on her back with accompanying consistent skin erythema and low-grade fever. The child's family had repeatedly rubbed the child's back with raw egg whites on the day before her presentation. The back was covered in diffuse erythema with clear boundaries and needle tip-sized black spots evenly distributed on the skin surface. Palpation revealed that these structures were mainly located in the skin layer (Figure, A).
Source: The Journal of Pediatrics - Category: Pediatrics Authors: Tags: Insights and Images Source Type: research