KOPLIK'S SPOTS

KOPLIK'S SPOTS

- Koplik’s spots are characteristic of measels or rubeola.

- They are the intraoral lesions reported to occur in about 97% of all patients with measles. The oral lesions are prodromal, frequently occurring 2-3 days before the cutaneous rash and are pathognomonic of this disease.

- These characteristic spots occurring on buccal mucosa are small, irregularly shaped flecks which appear as bluish white specks surrounded by a bright-red margin.

- Skin rashes—red maculopapular rashes occur on the back of the ear, forehead first, and then whole skin followed by Koplik’s spots.