Clinique de dermatologie, Hôpital cantonal universitaire, Genève.
Dermatoses of the hand in children are part of an original entity which can be classified in two groups: a group involving exclusively the hands and another one which is predominantly involving the hands. Attention has been focussed mostly on hand dermatoses in children (acropustulosis of infancy, papular, acrodermatitis, hand foot and mouth disease, subungual, exostosis). We discuss also the diagnostic and therapeutic aspects of scabies in children.