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An 18‐year‐old woman was seen in the clinic with complaints of a bizarre hypopigmentation of her skin which her mother said had been present from birth and had been asymptomatic, constant, and permanent. She also complained of a rough eruption which had developed at one year of age and had progressed slightly in size over the years. It was first noticed in the left axilla, groin, parasternal area and posteriorly on the neck and was restricted to the left side of the body. It became inflamed and pruritic, was asymptomatic at times, but never cleared although the patient felt some of the lesion had sloughed off. There were no associated systemic symptoms, no history of seizures, and her psychomotor development was normal. On examination, the main findings were mucocutaneous; she had hypopigmented bands, whorls, and streaks following Blaschko’s lines, the lesions affected the front and the back of her trunk bilaterally, with the arms and thighs also involved. Her face was spared ( Fig. 1a,b). There was no evidence of atrophy or scarring in the hypopigmented lesions. Hypopigmented whorls, bands, and streaks on both front (a) and back (b) of patient. Note also the one‐sided distribution

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Author

Adebola O. Ogunbiyi; J. Olufemi Ogunbiyi

Publisher

John Wiley and Sons; Wiley (Blackwell Publishing); Blackwell Publishing Inc.; Wiley (ISSN 0011-9059)

Published

1998

Language

EN

Field

Medicine (Health Sciences)