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Pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy; an intensely itching and occasionally vesicular eruption of the trunk and arms appearing in the third trimester of pregnancy. Spontaneous healing occurs within ten days of term.

PUPPP

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abbreviation for pruritic urticarial papules and plaques of pregnancy.

PUPPP

Obstetrics Pruritic urticarial plaques and papules of pregnancy An erythematous papule and plaque-forming eruption seen late in the 3^rd trimester in up to 75% of primigravidas, which does not recur in subsequent pregnancies Treatment Topical steroids. See Pruritus gravidarum.

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