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68-Year-Old Male with Intense Itching Followed by Blisters on the Breast

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A 68-year-old male presented with itching on his left breast for 3 days. He stated that the itch was intense and only moderately relieved by scratching. He then developed several tiny blisters in the area that continued to itch. He popped them when scratching the area. He denied lesions elsewhere on the body. His medical history was significant for varicella as a child. He has not treated the area and denies applying any topicals to the area prior to the rash developing.

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  1. Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Dublin, OH, USA

    Rosemary Oaks

  2. Ohio University Heritage College of Osteopathic Medicine, Athens, OH, USA

    Austin Cusick & Shannon C. Trotter

  3. Dermatologists of Central States, Canal Winchester, OH, USA

    Shannon C. Trotter

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Oaks, R., Cusick, A., Trotter, S.C. (2021). 68-Year-Old Male with Intense Itching Followed by Blisters on the Breast. In: Trotter, S.C., Cusick, A. (eds) Clinical Cases in Pruritus. Clinical Cases in Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-030-66274-5_9

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