ABSTRACT
CLINICAL FEATURES Affected women, who are usually in the last few weeks of their pregnancy, present with an intensely itchy eruption affecting firstly the abdomen and then becoming widespread. The morphology of the lesions is variable; usually red papules, plaques, and urticated lesions (259, 260). Rarely annular, polycyclic, vesicular or target-like lesions may develop. The site of predilection is the abdominal striae with umbilical sparing (261), however polymorphic eruption of pregnancy may also involve thighs, buttocks, arms, and back.
