Graft Versus Host Disease, Poikiloderma - DermAtlas

Contributor

Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

graft versus host disease poikiloderma

Body Site

neck chest

Age

10 years

Pigmentation

light

Organization

Color

Morphology

depressed (atrophy, loss of soft tissue,scar)

Pattern

Comments

A 10 year old girl who received a bone marrow transplant 2 months earlier for acute lymphocytic leukemia developed changes of chronic graft versus host disease with pigmentary changes, atrophy, and fibrosis over large areas of her back and chest. Gvhd_3_010331 shows a close up image of the back.

Description

hyperpigmentation and hypopigmentation with atrophy and fibrosis

Image Added

3/31/2001 13:18:32

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