Necrotising fasciitis complicating varicella

A 2-year-old girl was admitted for fever, irritability and increasing complaint of pain and swelling in the right quadrant of the abdomen following varicella. Physical examination revealed a few skin lesions in various stages of evolution, and a large (10×8 cm), painful, erythematous, oedematous plaque on the right abdomen. Over the following 2 days, the lesion …