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Case Reports
. 2013;157(52):A6880.

[A woman with red discolouration of the lower leg]

[Article in Dutch]
Floor J A van Deudekom  1 , Marloes D Stradmeijer, Philomeen M M Kuijer
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Case Reports

[A woman with red discolouration of the lower leg]

[Article in Dutch]
Floor J A van Deudekom et al. Ned Tijdschr Geneeskd. 2013.

Abstract

A 22-year-old women visited the Emergency Department with purpura of the right lower extremity subsequent to four days of hiking 40 kilometres daily. The diagnosis 'exercise-induced vasculitis' was made. This is a harmless and self-limiting disease that can occur due to exercising in warm weather.

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