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Purpura fulminans
  1. Syed Noaman Ali1,
  2. Amanda Kauffman2,
  3. Misbahuddin Syed2
  1. 1 University of South Florida College of Medicine, Tampa, Florida, USA
  2. 2 Internal and Hospital Medicine, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, Florida, USA
  1. Correspondence to Dr Misbahuddin Syed, Internal and Hospital Medicine, Moffitt Cancer Center, Tampa, FL 33612-9416, USA; Misbahuddin.Syed{at}moffitt.org

http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/postgradmedj-2021-140510

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    • Contributors SNA, AK and MS prepared the manuscript. MS formatted the submitted images and performed the submission process to the journal.

    • Funding The authors have not declared a specific grant for this research from any funding agency in the public, commercial or not-for-profit sectors.

    • Competing interests None declared.

    • Provenance and peer review Not commissioned; internally peer reviewed.