Pityriasis Lichenoides, Pityriasis Alba - DermAtlas

Contributor

Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

pityriasis lichenoides pityriasis alba

Body Site

back total body

Age

15 years

Pigmentation

dark

Organization

scattered

Color

white/hypo

Morphology

papulosquamous (bump, scale)

Pattern

generalized, disseminated symmetric

Comments

This healthy adolescent had a 2 year history of a generalized asymptomatic papulosquamous eruption associated with dramatic mottling of the skin. A skin biopsy of a scaly hypopigmented papule showed changes consistent with a chronic dermatitis.

Description

diffuse hypopigmented macules and hypopigmented minimally scaly papules

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10/23/2005 23:21:18

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