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01-04-2015 | Clinical Practice: Clinical Images
Got Zinc? An Exfoliative Rash in a Parenteral Nutrition-Dependent Patient
Published in: Journal of General Internal Medicine | Issue 4/2015
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A 77-year-old woman with dysphagia presented with a two-week history of rash characterized by brown plaques with erythematous borders and overlying thick scales involving the face and a prior percutaneous endoscopic gastrostomy (PEG) tube site (Fig. 1a, c). No oral or conjunctival involvement was present. She had been receiving parenteral nutrition for two months following removal of the PEG tube due to infection.
Figure 1.
a, b: Facial rash before and after zinc repletion. c, d: Rash at former PEG tube site before and after zinc repletion.
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