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Frequency And Clinical Variants Of Specific Dermatoses In Third Trimester Of Pregnancy: A Study From A Tertiary Care Centre, Sadra Masood, Dilawar Abbas Rizvi, Saadia Tabassum, Shaheen Akhtar, Rehan Uddin Alvi
Frequency And Clinical Variants Of Specific Dermatoses In Third Trimester Of Pregnancy: A Study From A Tertiary Care Centre, Sadra Masood, Dilawar Abbas Rizvi, Saadia Tabassum, Shaheen Akhtar, Rehan Uddin Alvi
Section of Internal Medicine
OBJECTIVE: To determine the frequency of patients with dermatoses in the third trimester of pregnancy and to identify various clinical types of dermatoses in the third trimester.
METHODS: The study was carried out at the Department of Dermatology and the Department of Gynaecology & Obstetrics, PNS Shifa Hospital, Karachi, from January 2 to July 1, 2008. Two hundred pregnant women in their third trimester were included in the study. The diagnosis was based on history, clinical examination and relevant investigations. Patients with physiological dermatoses and dermatoses which flare up during pregnancy were excluded. A comprehensive pro-forma was used to evaluate …