Clinical features
Clinical features include:
- occurs during the second and third trimesters of pregnancy.
- very rare during first pregnencies, more common during successive pregnancies
- starts as pruritic urticarial plaques:
- initial sites include the periumbilical area, around the mouth, palms and soles
- later lesions may become widespread
- after about 4 weeks bullous lesions appear
- bullous lesions resolve about 4 weeks post-partum
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