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Clinical considerations in digitate dermatosis
Author(s) -
Mueller Kurt K.,
Yeager Josef K.
Publication year - 1997
Publication title -
international journal of dermatology
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.677
H-Index - 93
eISSN - 1365-4632
pISSN - 0011-9059
DOI - 10.1046/j.1365-4362.1997.00138.x
Subject(s) - medicine , spongiosis , parakeratosis , acanthosis , trunk , asymptomatic , dermatology , biopsy , pathology , acanthosis nigricans , skin biopsy , folliculitis , hyperkeratosis , ecology , insulin resistance , obesity , biology
A 53‐year‐old man presented for evaluation of erythematous plaques over the trunk which had been present for several months. The lesions were asymptomatic and were not changing in appearance or number. The patient was in otherwise good health and had no history of dermatologic problems. Significant physical findings were well‐defined, elongated, erythematous plaques lying in parallel along both sides of the lower trunk (Figs la and 1b). There was no lymphadenopathy or visceral enlargement. A skin biopsy showed a lymphocytic perivascular infiltrate with epidermal spongiosis, acanthosis, and parakeratosis. On the basis of the clinical and histopathologic findings, and diagnosis of digitate dermatosis was established and the patient has done well without treatment.