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Xigetu He1, Bailing Wang1, Xiujuan Jia1
1Department of Dermatology, International Mongolian Hospital of Inner Mongolia, Hohhot, 010020, People's Republic of China.
Abstract:
Facial flushing is one of the common conditions in dermatology, which affects the aesthetic of patients to a great extent, and even leads to psychological and economic burdens. The most common causes of facial flushing are often inflammatory skin diseases such as rosacea, contact dermatitis, and others, but the facial flushing as a sign can also be the cutaneous manifestation of systemic disease. Telangiectasia macularis eruptiva perstans (TMEP) is a rare disease associated with mast cells. Here, we describe an unusual clinical finding with persistent facial flushing in a patient with TMEP.
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