Two Cases of Melasma with Unusual Histopathologic Findings

We reported two cases of clinically typical melasma presenting with unusual histopathologic findings. In one case, the epidermal melanocytes were markedly increased in number and protruded into the dermis, and in the other case, increased epidermal pigmentation as well as dermal melanocytosis were f...

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Autores principales: Shin, Jeong-Hyun, Kang, Won-Hyoung
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Lenguaje:English
Publicado: The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2006
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Case Report
Acceso en línea:https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734023/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16614533
http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2006.21.2.368
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description We reported two cases of clinically typical melasma presenting with unusual histopathologic findings. In one case, the epidermal melanocytes were markedly increased in number and protruded into the dermis, and in the other case, increased epidermal pigmentation as well as dermal melanocytosis were found. We suggested that the various treatment modalities of melasma should be applied depend on its histopathologic finding.
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spelling pubmed-27340232009-08-31 Two Cases of Melasma with Unusual Histopathologic Findings Shin, Jeong-Hyun Kang, Won-Hyoung J Korean Med Sci Case Report We reported two cases of clinically typical melasma presenting with unusual histopathologic findings. In one case, the epidermal melanocytes were markedly increased in number and protruded into the dermis, and in the other case, increased epidermal pigmentation as well as dermal melanocytosis were found. We suggested that the various treatment modalities of melasma should be applied depend on its histopathologic finding. The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences 2006-04 2006-04-20 /pmc/articles/PMC2734023/ /pubmed/16614533 http://dx.doi.org/10.3346/jkms.2006.21.2.368 Text en Copyright © 2006 The Korean Academy of Medical Sciences http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0 This is an Open Access article distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution Non-Commercial License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/3.0) which permits unrestricted non-commercial use, distribution, and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Two Cases of Melasma with Unusual Histopathologic Findings
title Two Cases of Melasma with Unusual Histopathologic Findings
title_full Two Cases of Melasma with Unusual Histopathologic Findings
title_fullStr Two Cases of Melasma with Unusual Histopathologic Findings
title_full_unstemmed Two Cases of Melasma with Unusual Histopathologic Findings
title_short Two Cases of Melasma with Unusual Histopathologic Findings
title_sort two cases of melasma with unusual histopathologic findings
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url https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2734023/
https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/16614533
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