A 7 Years Old Girl With Maculopapular and Erythematous Rash, Fever and Hypocomplementemia

Cutaneous eruptions and arthralgia in children can occur after infections, drugs and immunologic processes via different mechanisms. this is a report of a 7 years old girl with a history of maculopapular rashes that changed to target-shaped lesions and pruritus with non-pitting edema of ankles, strawberry tongue and periungual scaling of extremities, with no history of any drug usage. she had elevated liver enzymes and positive anti-viral capsid antigen (vca) (igm and igg), and depressed c3, c4 and ch50, that returned to normal after 3 months. here we explain the states that could cause similar clinical scenario and discuss them briefly.