Chicken Pox with Simultaneous Idiopathic Thrombocytopenic Purpura

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Abstract
CHICKEN pox is generally considered a benign disease. The following case was accompanied by primary idiopathic hemorrhagic purpura. Since similar reported cases are few and all indicate a grave prognosis, this case is presented.An 11-year-old boy entered the hospital because of a hemorrhagic vesicular rash, petechiae, ecchymosis, epistaxis, melena and hematuria. He had been perfectly well until 3 days before admission, when a slight fever, nausea and vomiting and headache developed. On the following day a vesicular eruption appeared on the head, face, neck and upper chest. During the next 24 hours these vesicles became hemorrhagic; petechiae, purpuric spots . . .
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