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Ms. Reed is a 45 year-old woman with a history of chronic atopic dermatitis, which started when she was in college. At first, she reportedly experienced episodes of patchy, itchy red bumps on the extensor aspects of her arms, legs, and such episodes would get worse during exam periods. After college, she had ten blissful years without any significant atopic dermatitis episodes. However, the disease has been making a return in the past 12–13 years, gradually at first but then picking up speed in terms of frequency and viciousness of each episode. Today, the patient comes in with both arms and legs studded circumferentially with eczematous papules, which appear beefy red and noticeably warm to the touch. She reports still using her triamcinolone acetonide 0.1 % cream and emollients to the affected areas daily. You have never observed such inflammatory intensity with her skin disease before.
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Nguyen, T.V., Wong, J.W., Koo, J. (2014). Atopic Dermatitis and a Major Depressive Disorder. In: Clinical Cases in Psychocutaneous Disease. Clinical Cases in Dermatology. Springer, London. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4471-4312-3_25
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