Dermatitis, Hand, Dermatitis, Atopic, Hyperpigmentation, Post Inflammatory - DermAtlas

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David Lange, MD

Diagnosis

dermatitis, hand dermatitis, atopic hyperpigmentation, post inflammatory

Body Site

hand

Age

40 years

Pigmentation

dark

Organization

confluent

Color

brown

Morphology

papulosquamous (bump, scale)

Pattern

acral (centripetal - extremity predominant) symmetric

Comments

This 40-year-old man, who was a resident of the Otash Internally Displaced Person's Camp in Darfur, had a long history of scaly, cracked, fissured itchy and painful hands.

Description

symmetric confluent scaly, cracked, fissured, hyperpigmented patches and plaques

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4/9/2008 23:20:38

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