The cutaneous side effects of oral contraceptives are uncommon but their manifestations are many and varied. Erythema nodosum is rare, it is typical but the associated signs are few and do not permit the etiological diagnosis. The latter rests mainly on the spontaneous disappearance of the symptomatology when the prescription of oral contraceptivae is discontinued and on the relapse on resumption of the retake. The physiopathology, much controversed, causes immunological disorders on the predisposed individual. Only stopping oral contraceptives intake brings about the cure.

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[False-membrane pharyngitis and vélopalatine paralysis: false diphteria, true infectious mononucleosis (author's transl)].

Paralysis of the soft-palate occurring at the end of, or in conjunction with false-membrane pharyngitis with lymphadenopathies should prompt to think of diphteria. The reported case is concerning an 18 year-old girl in whom the affection of the last cranial nerves (IX-XI and XII) is falling within the rare but deceptive neurological forms of infectious mononucleosis. The evolution was favorable, as is normally the case when there are no respiratory complications.

Adolescent↗