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Skin disorders of pregnancy fall into three major groups: disorders due to physiologic changes, specific skin disorders of pregnancy, and skin tumors. Elevated levels of estrogen and progesterone stimulate melanogenesis, which causes hyperpigmentation, including melasma; high levels of circulating
We report on a patient with a pustular eruption of the striae in an otherwise normal first pregnancy. The clinical, histologic, and immunologic findings are reviewed and found to be inconsistent with pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy and with the three previously described
Any pruritus occurring in pregnant women may represent a sensorial manifestation unrelated to pregnancy, but it may represent the consequence of a pregnancy-specific dermatosis. This latter group encompass pruritus gravidarum with or without intrahepatic cholestasis, pemphigoid gestationis,