Molluscum contagiosum and cryosurgery: Triggering factors for wells' syndrome?

Sir, Wells’ syndrome, or eosinophilic cellulitis, is an uncommon inflammatory dermatosis characterized in most cases by skin lesions resembling cellulitis and peripheral eosinophilia (1, 2). Patients rarely have systemic symptoms (3). The cutaneous manifestations include localized oedema and infiltrated erythematous plaques, infrequently studded with vesicles or bullae. Occasionally, less inflammatory lesions, such as multiple annular or circinate erythematous plaques with indurated borders, may be seen (4). The disease is nonscarring, leaving a slowly resolving hyperpigmentation. The cause of Well’s syndrome is unknown. We want to report a case where the syndrome started after a viral infection (molluscum contagiosum) treated repeatedly with cryosurgery.