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Case Reports
. 2022 Apr;47(4):802-805.
doi: 10.1111/ced.15025. Epub 2022 Jan 23.

Painful flexural plaques

Áine Kelly  1 , Nilu Wijesuriya  2 , Mickey Koh  3 , Ruth C Lamb  1
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Case Reports

Painful flexural plaques

Áine Kelly et al. Clin Exp Dermatol. 2022 Apr.

Abstract

A 30-year-old man presented with a 6-year history of eroded, orange-red plaques with a subtle nodular edge in the bilateral axilla, groin and perianal skin leading to pain, scarring and limited shoulder extension. Click https://www.wileyhealthlearning.com/#/online-courses/9b96cb7b-9903-4244-b741-3690a7e5b398 for the corresponding questions to this CME article.

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