Scleromyxedema - DermAtlas - Dermatology Image Atlas

Contributor

Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

scleromyxedema

Body Site

total body forearm arm

Age

47 years

Pigmentation

light

Organization

confluent

Color

skin color pink

Morphology

papule

Pattern

symmetric generalized, disseminated

Comments

This 47-year-old woman had a 15 year history of progressive infiltrative confluent papules on the chest, abdomen, back, hands, and forearms. Although she felt well, she had chronic hepatitis C, and serum protein electrophoresis revealed a IgG lambda type paraproteinemia.

Description

diffuse waxy infiltrative 2-3 mm papules

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5/15/2005 21:08:35

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