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Waking up with scabs/cuts -- please help?
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Skin Lesions: Skin lesion is an alteration in the integumentary system or skin. There are in two forms, the primary skin lesion and secondary skin lesion. Secondary skin lesions are not initially formed on the skin: usually result from a trauma or chronic infection. What you have are secondary skin lesions.
Answered 5/5/2018
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