Open J Pharma Sci
Blueberry Muffin Baby Syndrome (BMB) is a term describing the characteristic widespread bright red to blue - gray spots and papules on the skin of newborns, representing an islet and extramedullary hematopoiesis. It is a Pathomorphology based study, it was found that the lesions are foci of extramedullary hematopoiesis in derme and in the subcutaneous tissue. Subsequently, Cytomegalovirus (CMV) was described in children with both diseases associated with intrauterine infection of the fetus and with hematological, autoimmune and neoplastic pathological processes in newborns. The term CMV was coined to describe a purpuric skin rash in newborns with congenital rubella during an epidemic of infection in the 1960s. in the USA.
