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Clinical Cases in Exfoliative Dermatitis pp 151–154Cite as

The Greatest Psoriasis Copycat

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Abstract

We are presenting the case of a 41-year-old female patient suffering from a rare erythrodermic exfoliative variant of a very common disease.

In this report, we highlight the importance of systemic correlation to make the diagnosis of the underlying cause in erythrodermic diseases.

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  • Exfoliative dermatitis
  • Skin scales
  • Papulosquamous dermatosis
  • Generalized erythema

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  1. Dermatologia Integrada Moinhos Clinic, Porto Alegre, Brazil

    César Bimbi & Antonio Carlos Bastos Gomes

  2. Department of Dermatology, University General Hospital of Patras, Patras, Greece

    Georgia Kyriakou

  3. Dermatology Resident at Clinical Hospital of Federal University of Minas Gerais, Belo Horizonte, Brazil

    Raquel Ferreira Queiroz de Melo

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Editors and Affiliations

  1. Dermatology, Marconi University, Rome, Roma, Italy

    Torello M. Lotti

  2. Dermatologie & Allergologie, Städtisches Klinikum Dresden, Dresden, Sachsen, Germany

    Uwe Wollina

  3. Department of Dermatology & Venereology, Sechenov First Moscow State Medical University (Setchenov University), Moscow, Russia

    Olga Olisova

  4. Psychodermatology, Psychiatry & Behavioral Sciences, Central Michigan University College of Medicine, Saginaw, MI, USA

    Mohammad Jafferany

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Bimbi, C., Kyriakou, G., Gomes, A.C.B., de Melo, R.F.Q. (2022). The Greatest Psoriasis Copycat. In: Lotti, T.M., Wollina, U., Olisova, O., Jafferany, M. (eds) Clinical Cases in Exfoliative Dermatitis. Clinical Cases in Dermatology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-031-08466-9_29

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