A 30-year-old man developed an itchy erythemato-edematous vesicular lesion around his surgical wound on the fourth postoperative week (Fig. A). A routine blood test at the first outpatient clinic follow-up (4 weeks postoperatively) showed: WBC, 9500/μL; ESR, 12 mm/h; and CRP, 0.1 mg/dL. The patient was referred to the dermatologic clinic where he was diagnosed with contact dermatitis and skin infection, and prescribed oral antibiotics for 3 days and a local steroid ointment. The patient's pruritis resolved 2 weeks later (Fig. B), and the skin lesions resolved after 4 weeks of treatment (Fig. C).
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.