Palpable nekrotisierende Purpura unter Cumarin-Therapie -- Case Report und Literatur-Review.

We report the case of a 28-year old woman with extensive red-black colored lesions of the skin on the left thigh, which appeared without trauma. The disease arrived during long-term coumarin therapy because of a deep vein thrombosis and an antiphospholipid syndrome. After consideration of the differential diagnoses and due to the typical clinical picture w emade the diagnosis of coumarin necrosis. We review the clinical and therapeutic features for this rare complication. [ABSTRACT FROM AUTHOR]