volar rash; palmar rash

Introduction

Rash involving palms of hands & soles of feet

Etiology

• infections
  • secondary syphilis
  • disseminated gonococcus
  • rickettsial spotted fever
    • Rocky Mountain spotted fever
  • Zika virus
  • Haverhill fever
  • Janeway lesions (painless, 'smoke ring' macules)
  • acropustulosis
• other
  • erythema multiforme (erythematous plaques)
  • keratoderma blenorrhagicum (pustular psoriaform rash)
  • acropustulosis of infancy
  • exanthematous pustulosis
  • hand & foot syndrome (skin ulcers or blisters)
  • hand-foot-&-mouth disease (vesicles)
  • eosinophilic pustular folliculitis
  • dyshidrotic eczematous dermatitis
  • drug eruption
  • Stevens-Johnson syndrome

Differential diagnosis

• palmoplantar pustulosis
  • SAPHO syndrome

More general terms

• rash

Additional terms

• vola (palm, sole)