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Deanna Poirier

Diagnosis

pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy (PUPPP)

Body Site

trunk popliteal fossa (knee crease)

Age

36 years

Pigmentation

light

Organization

grouped, clustered

Color

red

Morphology

plaqulous (plaque / nodule / tumor)

Pattern

symmetric central (centrifugal - trunk predominant)

Comments

this 36-year-old woman, who was at 36 weeks gestation, developed an itchy red urticarial eruption on her abdomen and chest 3 weeks earlier. Initially the red papules were most prominent along the abdominal stretch marks.

Description

widespread red edematous papules

Categories

reactive erythema obstetrics (pregnancy related) and gynecology

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5/30/2003 19:30:05

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