Toxic epidermal necrolysis (TEN)

Usually caused by drugs, TEN demonstrates widespread erythema and confluent vesiculation, leading to sloughing of the skin. Affected patients are at risk for hypernatremic dehydration and sepsis.

Courtesy of Lee T Nesbitt, Jr. The Skin and Infection: A Color Atlas and Text, Sanders CV, Nesbitt LT Jr (Eds), Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1995.

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