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Mahmoud Hijazy, PH.D

Diagnosis

drug reaction drug reaction, fixed

Body Site

leg foot

Age

45 years

Pigmentation

dark

Organization

grouped, clustered discrete

Color

purple brown

Morphology

plaqulous (plaque / nodule / tumor)

Pattern

asymmetric

Comments

This 45-year-old diabetic woman developed edematous itchy violaceous plaques on her legs while on an oral sulfonamide antibiotic for treatment of pneumonia. The lesions healed with postinflammatory hyperpigmentation when the medicaion was discontinued.

Description

edematous 2 cm violaceous plaques with red borders

Categories

drug reaction hyperpigmentation

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3/19/2006 12:35:49

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