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PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:08 pm    Post subject: 34yr electric company worker presents to urgent care clinic

34yr electric company worker presents to urgent care clinic with pruritic skin rash on his right arm .he realtes it to recent plant exposure while doing a repair in a wooden area physical e/o reveals linear eruption with vesiculation.which of the following cells would b found earliest in this patient `s skin lesion?

a mast cell

b eosino

c neutro

d macrophage

e T lympho

f plasma cell


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PostPosted: Tue Nov 03, 2009 1:09 pm    Post subject:

answer is D ( T lymphocyte) because it is in woods,so contact dermatitis with poison ivy plants . type iv hypersensitivity

but in the choice if in case langerhans or dendritic cell is given shld we pick tht.?

(jus to extend the discussion),because it will b the ag presenting cell .


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