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Postpartum pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy with blister formation resembling herpes gestationis

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  1. Department of Dermatology, Nara Medical University School of Medicine, 840 Shijo, Kashihara, Nara, 634-8522, Japan

    Fumi Miyagawa, Ai Arima, Kentaro Iwasa & Hideo Asada

  2. Department of Dermatology, Kurume University School of Medicine, 67 Asahimachi, Kurume, Fukuoka, 830-0011, Japan

    Norito Ishii

  3. Department of Dermatology, Osaka City University Graduate School of Medicine, 1-4-3 Asahimachi, Abeno, Osaka, 545-8585, Japan

    Takashi Hashimoto

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Miyagawa, F., Arima, A., Iwasa, K. et al. Postpartum pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy with blister formation resembling herpes gestationis. Eur J Dermatol 29, 669–671 (2019). https://doi.org/10.1684/ejd.2019.3669

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