Recurrent genital ulceration: a case of dermatitis herpetiformis.
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Recurrent genital ulceration: a case of dermatitis herpetiformis.
Case history A 38 year old married Caucasian presented to our department with a two week history of an itchy vesicular penile eruption. At the onset there had been itchiness and erythema followed by oedema and blistering of the prepuce, developing over a 24-hour period. The blisters ruptured leaving superficial ulcers (fig 1). A clinical diagnosis ofherpes was made and swabs from the lesions we...
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ژورنال
عنوان ژورنال: Sexually Transmitted Infections
سال: 1990
ISSN: 1368-4973
DOI: 10.1136/sti.66.4.270