A 62-year-old woman developed an erythemato-edematous and vesicular lesion around her surgical wound on the sixth postoperative week (Fig. ). She was afebrile, and a routine blood test at the first outpatient clinic follow-up (7 weeks postoperatively) showed: WBC, 4700/μL; ESR, 28 mm/h; and CRP, 0.18 mg/dL. The mesh over her surgical wound had not been removed, and it was removed immediately. We suspected contact dermatitis and referred the patient to the dermatology clinic. After confirming our contact dermatitis diagnosis, local steroid ointment application and oral antihistamines were prescribed, and the patient was cured after 6 weeks of treatment.
A 37-year-old woman developed an itchy erythemato-eczematous and papulovesicular lesion around her surgical wound on the fourth postoperative week (Fig. ). After treatment with an antihistamine and local steroid ointment, the skin lesions resolved completely.