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Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

scar trauma

Body Site

scalp

Age

4 years

Pigmentation

light

Organization

Color

white/hypo

Morphology

depressed (atrophy, loss of soft tissue,scar)

Pattern

solitary

Comments

This 4-year-old boy spent the first month of his life in the neonatal intensive care unit. He developed an ulcer on the scalp following an intravenous infiltrate of 10 percent dextrose which healed with an atrophic scar.

Description

atrophic hairless oval 1.5 cm plaque

Categories

neonatal dermatology

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6/17/2003 23:21:08

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