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Factitial cheilitis in an adolescent
S D Calobrisi1, E Baselga, E S Miller
1Mayo Clinic Foundation, Rochester, Minnesota, USA. calobrisi.stella@mayo.edu
Pediatric Dermatology
|February 23, 1999
Abstract:
A 14-year-old adolescent girl presented with a 2-year history of an exquisitely tender, vegetating cheilitis. Because of this, she was unable to drink fluids and was repeatedly hospitalized for dehydration and pain management. Lip and skin biopsies, as well as multiple laboratory studies did not support a definitive diagnosis. After 2 years, a diagnosis of factitial cheilitis was finally established.