Resumen

DORTA, LJ et al. Pityriasis rosea: Report of a case. Rev. argent. dermatol. [online]. 2017, vol.98, n.1, pp.38-41. ISSN 1851-300X.

We communicate a 23-year-old female patient, natural and from the locality, who on November 30, 2016, visits the Integral Center of Specialties "Los Grillitos", CORPOSALUD, Municipality Mario Briceño Iragorry, for presenting non-pruriginous punctate lesions on the trunk, which appeared after a mild viral picture, reason why she goes to the doctor who indicates oral antihistamines and non-fluorinated topical glucocorticoids. Subsequent medical evolution shows pink oval lesions with non-pruriginous relief, disseminated in the trunk. Treatment is continued and an intramuscular betamethasone ampoule is indicated. The patient returns to medical evaluation and there is evidence of oval lesions less erythematous, desquamative at the border of the free border; in general they are involuted, observing at the moment clinical improvement of the picture.

Palabras clave : pityriasis rosea; skin lesions.