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Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

lipoatrophy

Body Site

thigh

Age

3 years

Pigmentation

light

Organization

Color

white/hypo

Morphology

depressed (atrophy, loss of soft tissue,scar)

Pattern

solitary

Comments

This healthy 3-year-old girl received an intramuscular steroid injection in the right thigh 4 months before developing a 3 cm depression in the skin at the site. The underlying muscle was not tender, and the overlying epidermis was only minimally atrophic.

Description

3 cm round hypopigmented depresed plaque

Categories

environmental injury treatment complication

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9/10/2005 14:41:47

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