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Case Reports
. 2021 Mar 22;193(12):E425.
doi: 10.1503/cmaj.201771.

Photodistributed chickenpox in a 3-year-old boy

Adrien Mareschal  1 , Dominique Blanc  2 , François Aubin  2
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Case Reports

Photodistributed chickenpox in a 3-year-old boy

Adrien Mareschal et al. CMAJ. .
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Competing interests: None declared.

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Figure 1:
Umbilicated vesicles present in a 3-year-old boy. The vesicles were 2–3 mm in size and associated with erosions and crusts, bilaterally on the forearms.
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