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Acute infantile hemorrhagic edema is an acute cutaneus leucocytoclastic vasculitis that can be seen in infancy and characterized by fever, palpable purpura and edema. Although it presents with severe symptoms; clinical course is benign and the disease resolves in a short time. In this report, three cases are presented that were admitted with cutaneous purpuric rash and edema of the extremities and, subsequently diagnosed as acute infantile hemorrhagic edema. We emphasize that acute infantile hemorrhagic edema should be kept in mind in the differential diagnosis of Henoch-Schonlein purpura, meningococcemia, and purpura fulminans.

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