Forchheimer spots are a fleeting enanthem seen as small, red spots (petechiae) on the soft palate in 20% of patients with rubella.[1] They precede or accompany the skin rash of rubella (German measles) . They are not diagnostic of rubella, as similar spots can be seen in measles and scarlet fever.[2]
The sign is named after Frederick Forchheimer.
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