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Jason Mazzurco, DO

Diagnosis

futcher line voight line Ito line

Body Site

arm

Age

11 years

Pigmentation

dark

Organization

linear

Color

brown

Morphology

macular / flat (macule / patch)

Pattern

symmetric

Comments

This healthy 11-year-old girl demonstrates a normal line of pigmentary demarcation on the anterior aspect of her upper arm that was noted during early childhood. These symmetric physiologic lesions are also known as Voight lines and Ito lines.

Description

vertically oriented linear line of demarcation of darker pigmented lateral skin with lighter pigmented medial skin

Categories

normal variants hyperpigmentation

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5/24/2009 20:18:07

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PubMed Medline Plus Medscape

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