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Case Records of the Massachusetts General Hospital
Weekly Clinicopathological Exercises
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Volume 334:1591-1597 June 13, 1996 Number 24
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Case 18-1996— A newborn boy with multiple hemorrhagic vesicles, lymphadenopathy, and respiratory distress
Lisa H. Lerner, and Elizabeth M. Bailey

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A newborn boy was admitted to the hospital because of a rash and respiratory distress.

The infant was born at 3:35 p.m. by cesarean section at 34 weeks' gestation to a 37-year-old woman (gravida 3, para 2). The pregnancy had been complicated by gestational diabetes mellitus, which was controlled by diet, and by "bronchitis" during the two months before delivery; the mother was treated with amoxicillin. She also used an iron preparation and multivitamin tablets during the gestation. She reported that she had had varicella in childhood; did not use other medications, illicit drugs, alcohol, or tobacco; and had no . . . [Full Text of this Article]

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