Dermatitis Artefacta: A Challenging Case Report

We report a 31-year-old female presented with a history of recurrent skin and oral lesions for 10 years. She brought a histopathology report confirming the diagnosis of pemphigus vulgaris (PV), which was found to be faked with no patient information and lacked letterhead. Skin and oral examination o...

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Autores principales: Basfar, Lena, Almadfaa, Ahmed, Nazer, Bashayr A, Al Hawsawi, Khalid, Khayyat, Shahad T
Formato: Online Artículo Texto
Lenguaje:English
Publicado: Cureus 2023
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Dermatology
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9965900/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/36852373
http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34244
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author Basfar, Lena
Almadfaa, Ahmed
Nazer, Bashayr A
Al Hawsawi, Khalid
Khayyat, Shahad T
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description We report a 31-year-old female presented with a history of recurrent skin and oral lesions for 10 years. She brought a histopathology report confirming the diagnosis of pemphigus vulgaris (PV), which was found to be faked with no patient information and lacked letterhead. Skin and oral examination only reveal multiple linear upper lip erosions. We believed the patient had a preliminary diagnosis of PV, and we asked the patient to continue her medications. Based on the conflicting history and occurrence of contradictory issues, a diagnosis of dermatitis artefacta was made. The patient improved after four sessions of dialectical therapy.
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spelling pubmed-99659002023-02-26 Dermatitis Artefacta: A Challenging Case Report Basfar, Lena Almadfaa, Ahmed Nazer, Bashayr A Al Hawsawi, Khalid Khayyat, Shahad T Cureus Dermatology We report a 31-year-old female presented with a history of recurrent skin and oral lesions for 10 years. She brought a histopathology report confirming the diagnosis of pemphigus vulgaris (PV), which was found to be faked with no patient information and lacked letterhead. Skin and oral examination only reveal multiple linear upper lip erosions. We believed the patient had a preliminary diagnosis of PV, and we asked the patient to continue her medications. Based on the conflicting history and occurrence of contradictory issues, a diagnosis of dermatitis artefacta was made. The patient improved after four sessions of dialectical therapy. Cureus 2023-01-26 /pmc/articles/PMC9965900/ /pubmed/36852373 http://dx.doi.org/10.7759/cureus.34244 Text en Copyright © 2023, Basfar et al. https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/3.0/This is an open access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits unrestricted use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original author and source are credited.
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Dermatitis Artefacta: A Challenging Case Report
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title_fullStr Dermatitis Artefacta: A Challenging Case Report
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title_short Dermatitis Artefacta: A Challenging Case Report
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC9965900/
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