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Specific Dermatoses of Pregnancy

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The specific dermatoses of pregnancy are a group of skin diseases which occur only during pregnancy and form a unique set of dermatoses. In this chapter, the most important conditions of this group are discussed, and the uniqueness of each disease is emphasized. Their background, clinical appearance, pathology, treatment, and prognosis are discussed.

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  1. Department of Dermatology, Hadassah – Hebrew University Medical Center, Jerusalem, Israel

    Yuval Ramot & Arieh Ingber

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  1. Department of Pathology and Laboratory Medicine, University of Rochester School of Medicine and Dentistry, Rochester, NY, USA

    Bruce Smoller

  2. Taha Physicians’ Building, Dr. Nooshin Bagerhani’s Office, Khoramshahr, Khuzestan Province, Iran

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Ramot, Y., Ingber, A. (2022). Specific Dermatoses of Pregnancy. In: Smoller, B., Bagherani, N. (eds) Atlas of Dermatology, Dermatopathology and Venereology. Springer, Cham. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-319-53808-2_62

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