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Bernard Cohen, MD

Diagnosis

vitiligo

Body Site

leg knee shin

Age

13 years

Pigmentation

dark

Organization

discrete confluent

Color

brown white/hypo

Morphology

macular / flat (macule / patch)

Pattern

symmetric acral (centripetal - extremity predominant)

Comments

This healthy 13-year-old girl with vitiligo most severe on her extremities demonstrates large areas of repigmentation following 3 months of photochemotherapy. Note the persistent depigmented areas and the almost complete repigmentation with conmfluent dark brown perifollicular macules

Description

large symmetric depigmented patches now studded with 3-4 mm hyperpigmented macules

Categories

treatment

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5/10/2010 22:30:20

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PubMed Medline Plus Medscape

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