Tinea Versicolor - DermAtlas - Dermatology Image Atlas

Contributor

Douglas Hoffman, MD

Diagnosis

tinea versicolor

Body Site

chest shoulder

Age

19 years

Pigmentation

light

Organization

confluent

Color

white/hypo

Morphology

papulosquamous (bump, scale)

Pattern

symmetric central (centrifugal - trunk predominant)

Comments

This adolescent developed asymptomnatic widespread hypopigmented scaly patches on her chest, shoulders, neck and back. Abundant hyphae and spores typical of tinea versicolor were seen on a potassium hydroxide perparation of scale scraped from the edge of several lesions. The eruption was successfully trearted with topical selenium sulfide 2.5 percent lotion.

Description

symmetric scaly hypopigmented patches

Image Added

10/1/2003 22:48:31

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