PAST MEDICAL HISTORY
- A history of all chronic illnesses, particularly those that may manifest in the skin, (diabetes, renal and hepatic disease, infection with HIV or hepatitis viruses, polycystic ovarian syndrome, lupus, thyroid disease) and those that are associated with skin disease (asthma, allergies)
- Immunosuppression: Either iatrogenic, infectious, genetic
- Pregnancies
- Psychiatric disease
- History of blistering sunburns, exposure to arsenic or ionizing radiation
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