CASE REPORT
PURPURIC PITYRIASIS ROSEA
 
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Erzurum Numune State Hospital, Department of Dermatology, Erzurum, Turkey
 
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Atatürk University, Faculty of Medicine, Departments of Internal Medicine, Erzurum, Turkey
 
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Atatürk University, Faculty of Medicine, Departments of Dermatology, Erzurum, Turkey
 
 
Online publication date: 2005-04-15
 
 
Publication date: 2005-04-15
 
 
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Cihangir Aliağaoğlu   

Hacı Salih Efendi Mah. Huzur-iş Apt. F Blok kat:4, Yenişehir-Erzurum, Turkey Phone : 904422321187, Fax : 904422321390
 
 
Eur J Gen Med 2005;2(2):83-85
 
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Pityriasis rosea (PR) is a common self-limited exanthem of unknown cause. The typical presentation of PR is easily recognized. Since purpuric PR is a very rarely seen variant, its diagnosis is sometimes difficult. In our 16-year-old female patient, maculopapular eruptions were healed spontaneously after one month. Erythrocyte extravasation in the dermis was observed in the histopathologic examination
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