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Athena speciality certificate examination case for photodermatology
Faisal Dubash1, Sally Ibbotson1
1Photobiology Unit, Department of Dermatology, Ninewells Hospital and Medical School, Dundee, UK.
Clinical and Experimental Dermatology
|April 27, 2022
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This Athena case describes a young girl with a 2-year history of episodic pruritic erythematous papules on her right cheek, which coalesced to form a plaque. The eruption later recurred, involving the left cheek, nose and upper arms.
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