Pigmented Purpura, Schamberg Disease - DermAtlas

Contributor

Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

pigmented purpura Schamberg disease

Body Site

thigh leg

Age

12 years

Pigmentation

light

Organization

grouped, clustered linear

Color

purple bronze

Morphology

patch

Pattern

asymmetric unilateral

Comments

This healthy 12-year-old boy developed a slowly enlarging cluster of bronze to violaceous patches on his right upper inner thigh. The eruption which had been present for over 6 monnths was not symptomatic, and a skin biopsy showed chnages typical of a pigmented purpuric dermatosis.

Description

mimimally scaly violaceous bronze colored clustered patches

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11/3/2011 23:02:03

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