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A Man with a Blistering Rash

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Clinical Cases in Autoimmune Blistering Diseases

Part of the book series: Clinical Cases in Dermatology ((CLIDADE,volume 5))

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A 31 year old caucasian male photographer presented to his GP with a new onset erythematous and pruritic blistering rash in his groin and scalp.

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  1. Department of Dermatology, St George Hospital, Level 0, James Laws House, St George Hospital, Gray Street, Kogarah, Sydney, NSW, 2217, Australia

    Adam G. Harris MBChB & Dédée F. Murrell M.A., BMBCh, FAAD, M.D., FACD

  2. University of New South Wales, Sydney, NSW, Australia

    Dédée F. Murrell M.A., BMBCh, FAAD, M.D., FACD

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  1. Department of Dermatology, St George Hospital University of New South Wales, Kogarah, New South Wales, Australia

    Dédée F. Murrell

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Harris, A.G., Murrell, D.F. (2015). A Man with a Blistering Rash. In: Murrell, D. (eds) Clinical Cases in Autoimmune Blistering Diseases. Clinical Cases in Dermatology, vol 5. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-10148-4_18

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