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Generalized exfoliative dermatitis (GED) refers to diffusely red and inflamed skin with varying degrees of scaling. There are many causes of GED and the most common are exacerbations of a pre-existing benign inflammatory skin disease (such as atopic dermatitis and psoriasis), drug reactions and cutaneous T-cell lymphoma. Sometimes more than one skin biopsy should be done in order to achieve diagnosis and rule out underlying malignancies.
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Guglielmo, A., Viviani, F., Pileri, A., Bardazzi, F. (2022). Generalized Exfoliative Dermatitis. In: Lotti, T.M., Wollina, U., Olisova, O., Jafferany, M. (eds) Clinical Cases in Geriatric Exfoliative Dermatitis. Clinical Cases in Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-09436-1_22
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