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Image Number #600 (Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy)

Diagnosis: Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy

Description: Polymorphous papules and plaques

Morphology: Papules,red

Site: Arm,forearm

Sex: F

Age: 35

Type: Clinical

Submitted By: Shahbaz Janjua

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History: This seven-month-pregnant woman developed a symmetric erythematous pruritic eruption consisted of polymorphous papules and plaques primarily involving the striae of pregnancy on the lower abdomen and spreading to the extremities.  The cause and pathogenesis of PUPPP are not known but it tends to resolve spontaneously shortly after delivery.

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