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Anastasia M. Canacci, MD; Sharon Longshore Thornton, MD; Apra Sood, MD; Wilma Bergfeld, MD
The Ohio State University College of Medicine and Public Health (Dr Canacci) and The Cleveland Clinic Foundation (Drs Thornton, Sood, and Bergfeld), Cleveland, Ohio

Arch Dermatol. 2005;141:389-394.

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REPORT OF A CASE

A 51-year-old Filipino man presented with a 4-day history of painful red bumps on his face, neck, and right wrist. He also complained of a mild headache. He denied fever and chills. His medical history included rheumatic heart disease, thrombocytopenia, allergic rhinitis, and a benign cyst on his forehead. His surgical history was significant for repair of a bilateral inguinal hernia and excision of a benign left axillary cyst. He had started taking loratadine–pseudoephedrine sulfate (Claritin-D) tablets 5 days before the cutaneous findings appeared. His only other medication was a multivitamin.

Physical examination revealed multiple tender, well-demarcated, erythematous plaques and nodules on the face, neck, and left forearm and a large indurated, dusky plaque on the right forearm (Figure 1). The right forearm plaque was hypoesthetic to pinprick and hot/cold perception. The right ulnar . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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