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Scabies masquerading as bullous pemphigoid.. Notes: The chest and abdomen of a 76-year-old man show the new appearance of pruritic pinkish-red dermal plaques. Angiomas, present as dark red nodules, are also numerous.
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Cutaneous examination revealed urticarial dermal red plaques on his chest, abdomen, proximal arms, and thighs (Figures 1 and 2).
Bullous scabies mimicking bullous pemphigoid.. Notes: A closer view of the scabies lesions presenting as pink-red plaques on the left upper abdomen that mimic the urticarial phase of bullous pemphigoid. Biopsy showed a superficial and deep inflammation containing numerous eosinophils.
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Cutaneous examination revealed urticarial dermal red plaques on his chest, abdomen, proximal arms, and thighs (Figures 1 and 2).
Scabies surrepticius masquerading as bullous pemphigoid.. Notes: A closer view of the scabies lesion on the right lower abdomen; it presents as a tense blister. Biopsy showed a sub-epidermal blister with eosinophils not only in the papillary dermis beneath the base of the vesicle, but also in the superficial and deeper dermis.
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Two isolated tense bullae were also present on his right abdomen and left thigh (Figure 3); there was no involvement of the face, conjunctiva or oral mucosa.