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Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy (PUPPP) are among the most common pruritic dermatoses observed in pregnant women. PUPPP appears most frequently in the third trimester, in ...
These disorders are characterized by pruritic wheals with circumferential erythema on any part of the body. Figure 1 shows urticaria on the skin of a Black patient and on the skin of a White ...
Current guidelines suggest limiting diagnostic testing for chronic spontaneous urticaria when no clear cause is suspected, though biomarkers and biopsies are emerging as tools to predict treatment ...
A healthy, adolescent boy is seen for recurrently awakening with pruritic, urticarial-like lesions between his upper thighs extending to his mid-thorax. Some lesions appear to be in a linear ...
However, due to mild shortness of breath, spreading lesions, and increasing pruritus, she presents to the emergency department on day 10 of urticaria onset (6 days after her positive COVID-19 test).
After being bitten by a mosquito, who among us hasn’t been tormented by the resulting itch? Now, imagine that intensity and urge to scratch spread over your entire body, in a constant and unrelenting ...
This case report highlights an unusual presentation of Adult Still’s Disease (ASD), a rare systemic inflammatory disorder, in a 26-year-old woman who exhibited atypical skin symptoms without classical ...
A 9-year-old healthy boy presented to the clinic complaining of a three-day history of several moderately pruritic lesions on his lower legs. This was his third episode with similar lesions this ...
Urticaria(hives or wheals) consists of migratory, well circumscribed, erythematous, pruritic plaques on the skin. Urticaria results from the release of histamine, bradykinin, kallikrein ...
Contact urticaria to shrimp. On physical examination, the patient’s hands revealed minimal excoriations and an absence of primary lesions. No pustules, vesicles, or bullae were present.
Epidemiology of PUPPP. The term "pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy" was initially proposed by Lawley in 1979. [] Available literature from that time also refers to "toxemic ...