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Clinical and microscopic appearance of hypertrophic HSV-2
lesion.
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This was associated with surrounding tissue edema, and shotty left inguinal lymphadenopathy, and progressed over the subsequent two months (Figure 1(a)). Both a superficial swab and a punch biopsy of the hypertrophic lesion demonstrated HSV-2, with glassy nuclear chromatin, multinucleation and surrounding severe acute and chronic inflammation (Figure 1(b)).