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Post-varicella reactive perforating collagenosis arising as Wolf's isotopic response Volume 24, issue 4, July-August 2014

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1 Department of Dermatology
2 Department of Pathology,
Toho University Ohashi Medical Center,
2-17-6, Ohashi,
Meguro-ku,
Tokyo 153-8515,
Japan

Isotopic response is the occurrence of a new skin disorder at the site of another unrelated, and already healed, skin disease. We here describe a case of post-varicella reactive perforating collagenosis (RPC) arising as Wolf's isotopic response.A 68-year-old woman visited our hospital with intensely pruritic papules, mainly on her trunk. She had had rheumatoid arthritis (RA) for 30 years and a history of varicella in childhood. Two weeks previously, disseminated vesicles had appeared on her head, [...]