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Case of the month: a case of IgG4-related skin disease Volume 30, issue 4, July-August 2020

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1 Department of Dermatology, Churchill Hospital, Oxford, UK
2 Department of Cellular Pathology, John Radcliffe Hospital, Oxford, UK

A 50-year-old male patient presented with an 18-month history of an intensely pruritic rash. He was otherwise fit and well and took no regular medications. Ultra-potent topical steroids and high-dose antihistamines were ineffective. Examination of the skin revealed multiple non-scaly erythematous papules and nodules on the head, trunk and limbs (figure 1A, B). These lesions coalesced to form plaques on the back (figure 1C). There was no organomegaly, but lymph nodes were palpable in bilateral axillary [...]