Psoriasis, Plaque - DermAtlas - Dermatology Image Atlas

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Brooke Bair, DO

Diagnosis

psoriasis, plaque

Body Site

leg

Age

46 years

Pigmentation

dark

Pattern

symmetric

Comments

This 46-year-old man developed hypopigmented rings around psoriatic papules and plaques which were improving with a combination of narrow band ultraviolet B light, topical steroids, and topical calcipotriene. These ares of surrounding hypopigmentation are referred to as Woronoff rings

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46 year old african american male, clinically diagnosed with psoriasis, was being treated with a combination of NBUVB, topical steroids and vitD3 analogs. When his plaques began to improve, he showed the classic "woronoff ring." Woronoff ring is a pale

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12/17/2008 22:49:26

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