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Muhammad Waseem, MD

Diagnosis

dermatitis, atopic dermatitis, contact allergic lichenification

Body Site

abdomen

Age

10 years

Pigmentation

medium

Organization

Color

purple

Morphology

papulosquamous (bump, scale)

Pattern

Comments

A 10 year old boy with atopic dermatitis developed a chronic itchy papular eruption below the umbilicus. Lesions improved somewhat when his mother covered metal snaps and buttons with cotton patches. These pruritic periumbilical papules are seen commonly in atopics and may represent a concommitant nickel contact allergic dermatitis.

Description

excoriated lichenified violaceous papules

Categories

papulosquamous eruptions

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8/11/2001 18:51:01

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