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My gf came home from a doc apt she had molluscum contagiosum. a day after she started getting bumps that look like herpes. any other possibilities?

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Dr. Oscar Novick answered

Specializes in Pediatrics

Differential diagnos: One can consider pyogenic granulomas, flat warts, skin manifestations of cryptococcuss, histoplasmosis, and apergellosis. Lichen planus and epidermal cysts can also be considered.

Answered 10/1/2017

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