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sQuiz your knowledge: a single bulla developing after vaccination Volume 30, issue 1, January-February 2020

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Authors
1 Department of Dermatovenereology, Chengdu Second People's Hospital, Chengdu, Sichuan,
2 Sexually Transmitted Disease Institute, Shanghai Skin Disease Hospital, Shanghai, China
a These authors contributed equally

A 15-year-old Chinese boy presented with a nine-month history of a lump on the right arm. About nine months earlier, he had received a hepatitis B vaccination at the same location as the lesion. After the vaccination, obvious cutaneous inflammation occurred and a red nodule developed in the same region. The nodule gradually enlarged with mild tenderness; the skin over the nodule had transformed into a bullous appearance one month earlier (figure 1A). Ultrasound demonstrated a well-defined dermal [...]