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- Title
Blaschkoid pityriasis versicolor.
- Authors
Cheng Tan; Wen-Yuan Zhu; Zhong-Sheng Min
- Abstract
A 31-year-old male patient complained of having follicular and brownish red maculopapules along the Blaschko’s lines on the right chest for 2 days. On examination, follicular brownish maculopapules were present on the chest with a uniform size of about 3 mm in diameter. The lesions were isolated without a tendency to merge, giving several S-shaped, band-like appearances. Direct mycological examination of the skin flakes revealed many pseudomycelial hyphae and yeast cells with typical spaghetti and meatball appearance. Wood’s light examination of the lesion revealed a golden yellow fluorescence. A diagnosis of blaschkoid pityriasis versicolor was suggested because of blaschkoid distribution of the lesions in this new variant of PV.
- Subjects
CASE studies; PITYRIASIS rosea; MYCOLOGY; DETECTION of microorganisms; LEAVENING agents; PASTA products; DIAGNOSIS
- Publication
Mycoses, 2010, Vol 53, Issue 4, p366
- ISSN
0933-7407
- Publication type
Letter
- DOI
10.1111/j.1439-0507.2009.01721.x