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Eosinophilic cellulitis following the lines of Blaschko
Author(s) -
Sabine Sommer,
S. M. Wilkinson,
William Merchant
Publication year - 1999
Publication title -
clinical and experimental dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.587
H-Index - 78
eISSN - 1365-2230
pISSN - 0307-6938
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-2230.1999.00529.x
Subject(s) - cellulitis , medicine , etiology , dermatology , genetic predisposition , eosinophilic , pathology , disease
Eosinophilic cellulitis is an inflammatory dermatosis of unknown aetiology. We describe a case following the lines of Blaschko, which may be the expression of cutaneous mosaicism, suggesting a possible underlying genetic predisposition for the development of Wells' syndrome.