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Case Reports
. 2022 Sep-Oct:49:102424.
doi: 10.1016/j.tmaid.2022.102424. Epub 2022 Aug 10.

Unilesional monkeypox: A report of two cases from Italy

Eleonora Quattri  1 , Gianluca Avallone  2 , Carlo A Maronese  3 , Marco Cusini  4 , Carlo G Carrera  3 , Angelo V Marzano  3 , Stefano Ramoni  4
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Case Reports

Unilesional monkeypox: A report of two cases from Italy

Eleonora Quattri et al. Travel Med Infect Dis. 2022 Sep-Oct.
No abstract available

Keywords: Monkeypox; Sexually transmitted infection; Unilesional monkeypox; Vesico-pustular lesions.

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Declaration of competing interest All authors declare no conflicts of interest.

Figures

Fig. 1
Fig. 1
Single vesico-pustular lesion with marked umbilication on the foreskin of patient 1 (a) and on the penis shaft of patient 2 (b). Dermoscopy showed whitish structureless areas with a brownish central depression and peripheral erythema in both cases (c,d).
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