sQUIZ your knowledge! "Water-drop" lesions in a febrile patient. Miliaria crystalline (MC).

@article{Carvalho2012sQUIZYK,
  title={sQUIZ your knowledge! "Water-drop" lesions in a febrile patient. Miliaria crystalline (MC).},
  author={Rodrigo Ara{\'u}jo Carvalho and Isabel Freitas},
  journal={European journal of dermatology : EJD},
  year={2012},
  volume={22 1},
  pages={
          160-1
        },
  url={https://api.semanticscholar.org/CorpusID:12996954}
}
An 82 year-old female was admitted for acute pyelonephritis with high fever and one day after admission, high fever was still noted and 1-2 mm diameter, asymptomatic, superficial, clear, fragile vesicles developed on her trunk.
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