We report the case of an eight-month child with upper airway infection followed by irritability and purpuric lesions in his face, ears and extremities and peripheral soft tissue edema. He was treated with dexamethasone, ampicillin and chloramphenicol for presumed meningococcemia, but the characteristics lesions and the benign course of the disease led us to the diagnosis of a rare form of cutaneous vasculitis called Acute Hemorrhagic Edema of Infancy (AHEI).
Acute Hemorrhagic Edema of Infancy (AHEI); cutaneous vasculitis; Henoch-Schonlein Purpura
