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Kosman Sadek Zikry, MD

Diagnosis

tinea versicolor

Body Site

trunk back

Age

30 years

Pigmentation

medium

Organization

confluent

Color

brown

Morphology

papulosquamous (bump, scale)

Pattern

symmetric central (centrifugal - trunk predominant)

Comments

This 30 year old woman had a chronic and recurrent minimally scaly hyperpigmented confluent papular eruption forming several large truncal plaques. A potassium hydroxide preparation demonstrated the "spaghetti and meat balls" typical of tinea versicolor.

Description

symmetric confluent hyperpigmented minimally scaly brown papules

Categories

infections and infestations papulosquamous eruptions hyperpigmentation

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4/17/2002 23:36:53

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