Pastia's sign/lines

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Introduction

Pink or red transverse lines at the bend of the elbow first visible in the pre-eruptive phase of scarlet fever. The lines persist through the eruptive phase & remain as pigmented lines after desquamation.

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References

  1. Stedman's Medical Dictionary 27th ed, Williams & Wilkins, Baltimore, 1999.