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Tropical Diseases:

I Leishmaniasis
II Paracoccidioidomycosis
III Blastomycocis
IV Chromoblastomycosis
V Lepra
VI Sporotrichosis
VII Histoplasmosis
VIII Rhinosporidiosis
IX Mycetomas
X Rhinoscleroma
XI Chagasdisease
XII Actinomycosis
XIII Mucormycosis
XIV Amoebiasis
XV Protothecosis
XVI Lobomycosis
XVII Phaeohyphomycosis
XVIII Pruritus actinicus
XIX Bite of snake
XX Coccidioidomycosis

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XVIII. Actinic Pruritus

Case 68. Actinic Pruritus / Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome

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Fig. 68-B4: Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome

Occasionally an intraepithelial blister formation is seen with an exsudate and several acantholytic epithelial cells. The disease is called "Staphylococcal scalded skin syndrome" or "Lyell syndrome".


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Facultad de Medicina
Universidad de Los Andes
Merida - Venezuela