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Figure 1.

View larger version (37K): [in this window] [in a new window]   Figure 1. During a routine examination, a 33-year-old Korean woman was incidentally found to have lesions on her back in various stages of healing. The lesions had been created when a friend applied heated cups to the skin to treat back pain. The vacuum created as the cup cools results in erythema, edema, and ecchymoses of the skin, which take several weeks to heal. The patient was unconcerned about these effects of "cupping" and requested no intervention.

 

Helen Manber, M.D.
Matthew Kanzler, M.D.
Stanford University Hospital
Palo Alto, CA 94304

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