Tinea Versicolor - DermAtlas - Dermatology Image Atlas

Contributor

Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

tinea versicolor

Body Site

back

Age

16 years

Pigmentation

dark

Organization

discrete confluent

Color

white/hypo

Morphology

papulosquamous (bump, scale)

Pattern

symmetric central (centrifugal - trunk predominant)

Comments

This adolescent boy complained of chronic and recurrent scaly white spots on his trunk for years. The scaling cleared with topical selenium sulfide lotion but the pigment took 4 months to recover. His father and several of his siblings also had tinea versicolor

Description

diffuse symmetric discrete and confluent truncal hypopigmented 0.5-1.0 cm minmally scaly patches

Image Added

9/16/2006 18:46:50

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